True... maybe we'd have been better off burning the whole damn hive in one
move.
You're about 140 years past your time.
That attitude brought us Sand Creek, Wounded Knee, and a long list of black
spots on the American conscience in between.
A few renegade men stole some horses and killed a settler? Burn the whole damn
village, shoot the women, ride down the little kids.........
That may be your preferance, but consider that there were only a couple of
hundred thousand plains Indians, or fewer, to deal with in the 19th century.
By 2025, estimates are there will be two *billion* Muslims, 60% of them under
25 years of age.
We can't, and shouldn't kill them all.
Unless we can justify making war against an entire society and its government,
we have no choice except to prosecute these criminals for what they are.
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