Teribus,

You've misunderstood the point of my post. I was saying that the 19th century examples are irrelevant in exactly the same way that calling up examples of things Saddam did while we supported him with money and weapons was irrelevant. He gassed the Kurds! Well, Gareth's sympathy is commendable, but why didn't Gareth say anything WHEN IT HAPPENED instead of years later once Saddam was no longer a CIA "Asset?" And your arguments that sympathy for slaughtered Indians is only appropriate in people willing to go back to the 19th century is exactly what people would expect from you: neither logic nor feeling.