I've experienced too much of the world and studied too much history to believe we have anything but the thinnest of veneers over our savagery.

For example, King Phillip's War, where the heads of both English and Indian were exhibited on poles in both Indian villages and places such as Boston and other, similar, things were done. Mangas Colorado and his fight against the Mexicans. "To Hell or to Connaught." My Lai in Vietnam can't hold a cndle to the Japanese in New Guinea or the Cabatuan Camp. Is what happened at Cowboy Wash different from Buchenwald or Mathausen? Are the gulags that different from the Siberian prisons of the czars or the prisons of Iran and Iraq?

The trickle of the bloody river continues to flow....