Not surprising. After all, two of the greatest 20th century genocidal leaders (Adolf and Marx -> ideological leader of Lenin and Stalin) learned their trade in Europe.

Of course we Americans know nothing about genocide, racism, friendly dictators and soldiers gone awry.

Praise the Lord!

AH, Howdydowdy,

The issue at hand is genocide.

The American army has never participated in genocide, properly understood, on the orders of its government. The American government, in the whole of its history, has never issued such orders. The French government, in both ancient and modern forms, has. On several occasions; Paris (St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre), Vendée, Vichy, Algeria, Rwanda.

American soldiers gone awry have been found out, prosecuted and convicted and sentenced by America. No French soldier has ever been so much as indicted for actions in Rwanda.

The American MSM is awash in any dark news about America in the world. The broad French public has yet to learn the story of France's role in Algeria and Rwanda.

And then there is the question of scale and proportion. One million dead in 100 days -- 10,000 murders a day every day for 100 days. Hard to top.

So exactly what is your argument? Give the French a pass because you believe America no better. Hhmmm, why not give Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and, well, everybody a pass because America doesn't pass your four-nines purity test. But of course no modern nation state -- that is something more than a dressed-up tax haven -- can.

Your facile tu quoque is as empty as your sanctimony.

Please drop by again to better instruct us on what -- in your informed opinion -- we are qualified to comment on.

Regards,
DGB

"The American army has never participated in genocide, properly understood, on the orders of its government."

I wonder then: what almost wiped out the american natives ? A meteor ? Too much reading of Karl Marx ? Or maybe was it Saddam's WMD.

Oh. An Elvis sighting.

Of course Elvis is thought to be dead, but judging by his uninformed comment it is plain whatever the vital disposition of his other corporeal assets, Elvis's brain is most certainly defunct.

First, Elvis apparently is unaware that the American government and the Indian nations were engaged in a series of wars, not a one-sided genocide. There was never a national policy to exterminate the Indian peoples. The goals of the federal government vis-a-vis the Indian peoples was A) to end armed resistance, B) assimilate them, and/or C) force their relocation to Indian reservations.

Second, Elvis confuses massacres -- a local tactic carried out by both belligerents -- with widespread and systematic killing of whole peoples.

Third, where horrors there were -- and there were horrific and indiscriminate killings -- these were the actions of individual commanders, both federal and Indian, waging war as they understood it.

Elvis is ignorant of these important distinctions. We are equally certain he is ignorant of the basic history of the Indian Wars, Indian alliances with American enemies, the all-but-forgotten peaceful acquisitions of Indian land, and the ongoing warring of the Indian peoples among themselves.

No. No need for any actual history for brain-dead Elvis. For him there are no distinctions -- the only possible explanation is his revisionist "dark America".

DGB