Sunday, November 04, 2007
This Day in the History of Serious American Defeats


UPDATE: Reader Tony asked if the Columbus Blue Jackets NHL team was named after the chief mentioned above. The Blue Jackets self report that they are named after the history of Columbus, Ohio supplying a lot of soldiers for the Union during the Civil War. Wow. No wonder they suck.
Labels: American Military Defeats
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Rog,
Was the NHL team in Columbus named after the chief? If so, pretty imitative of the Chicago Blackhawks.
T
Was the NHL team in Columbus named after the chief? If so, pretty imitative of the Chicago Blackhawks.
T
There really is no good news in that story or the history. The only good news would have been if the American Government and white pioneers had shown a little common sense and integrity during the move west instead of greed. Typically they did not and the result was genocide.
There were two incompatable cultures on the continent. The natives didn't have the immunity to diseases the whites did and didn't have a sustained ability to unite to keep from being defeated one tribe at a time. When they did unite, they did better. I recognize their courage, but I'm glad they lost and I live in the United States of America not the Unified Tribes of whatever it would be in alternative reality. Might taking what it can in war is 99% of human history and the 1% is the United States since 1917. I'm not sure about the 'common sense' part. What would you have wanted them to do?
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