The Whole day Through
Okay, I'm getting a little tired of the all deep thinkers out there who say that the Georgians should get whatever's coming to them. These are the same people who like to remind us of how cruel we've been to American Indians, and use that deplorable term, "Native American," because they're too lazy to find out which of the specific 1000 or so tribal groups they're talking about in any given moment.
Yeah, the White Man stole the lands from the many tribes and continue to treat them as dirt, or museum pieces. But do you really not know the history of the Iroquois, the Navajo, the Apache, the Lenape, The Mi-Wuk... all the rest. It's always been the mighty taking from the weak.
And we have deplored it because it's wrong. Even while we bask in the luxury of being American.
The term "Native American" came from ass-dragging white bureaucrats, who wanted a convenient way to save them reams of paperwork, by grouping all those aforementioned tribal group together. Now the heart-renders among us try to assuage their own sense of White guilt by labeling all the tribes in a... wait for it... politically-conscious way.
So when I hear these same people accusing Georgians of crimes against humanity, it makes me think of the lousy way we treat American Indians, and the lousy way we pretend that we still don't treat them. It makes me think that, man, there’s a bunch of hypocrites in America.
Number one, you can't bemoan the fate of the American Indian on one hand, which includes a large number of warring tribes who simply all got defeated by the superior firepower of the whites - and at the same time tell me that the Georgians deserve it. And number two, the citizenry are not responsible for the crimes of their leaders.
Or have we all forgotten how much we despise George W. Bush? Have we forgotten how the Chinese people flourished in the Olympic Opening Ceremonies when their draconian government finally gave them a chance?
What Putin and Russia did was wrong, plain and simple. Or should I remind us all of another history lesson? This one courtesy of an English chap named Neville Chamberlain.
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Are you kidding? You complain at the laziness of others who don't learn to distinguish between Moheehan and Sioux, but then you demonstrate absolutely no knowledge about the ways in which US policy since the fall of the Soviet Union has backed Russia into a corner. You bait the bear and the bear will bite back. Read before you write, my friend.
REPLY: Mohehan? No such tribe. Sioux? White man's name for the Lakota and others. You're making Russia a victim?? And the U.S. the world's sole aggressor? Gee, I wonder what your agenda is?
You know, this is not even a good bluff. You're blaming the USA for the murderous aggression of Russia. As if we forced them to take control of the disputed territories... for what, exactly? Otherwise Russia will disintegrate? They'll be forced to watch reruns of "My Motherland, the Fiat?" for eternity? You tell me to read, then offer nothing of your own vaunted knowledge on the subject. Given the circumstances, I have no problem calling you Comrade Idiot....
Do yourself a favor and go see "Daywatch." The Watch has it all under control......
Posted by: look in the mirror | August 14, 2008 10:54 AM