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Old 05-15-2008, 09:03 PM   #106 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by winthrop View Post
We wiped out several indigenous nations in the process.
We are here, we are going nowhere, our existence is a fait à compli.
However, we should have no illusions about our origins or their effects.

If we do not remember history we are doomed to repeat it; or at least
carry the same attitudes elsewhere, the Middle East, for example.
that we did.
The question i am asking is, was it "moral" as others have asked me.

My response was, it was immoral in the manner we did it, but it was not immoral for us to establish a nation.

I don't think we really had a choice, the land had to be taken, i see no other way of doing it.
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