On Indians

C4: "I put out my belief that American Indians attacking Forts, wagon trains, and Settlements were not necessarily evil terrorists, but people resisting Occupation and loss of their lands."

At the risk of being pulled into an interminable and unrewarding discussion, I do not think this statement is accurate, and I do not think it does justice to reality.

Indians were barbarians, they lived barbaric lives, and they fought in barbaric ways. To say that they were "people resisting an occupation" is to equate civilization and barbarism, something I could never do. The easy test is to ask yourself if anything about the Indian way leads you to believe that this particular culture would have created antiseptics, antibiotics, and anesthesia.

If not, it deserved to go, and good riddance.