If the Amerinds are suffering today, it is of their own making, not because of the general American population. This fact not even the tribes themselves can dispute.
As for me dragging your India into this...
I have always find it fascinating that people from shittier countries -- shittier in every way -- will expend so much energy to find faults with US, historical and today, to portray US as the worst of humanity, when there are plenty of their own citizens eager to gain entrant into the US. They will readily abandon their shitty ways of life, the kind that was imposed by their own societies, uproot their families, gather whatever meager money they have, and leave. I have never made jokes on this forum about Indians and 7-Eleven stores, but jokes always came from a kernel of truth. So in your case, I do not see Americans abandoning their countries to settle in India. Do you?
So do yourself and your fellow Indians a big favor: Raise your India out of poverty, get rid of the evil caste system, put away those 'holy men' who feeds on rotting human flesh, treat women better, get rid of child marriages, get rid of widow burnings, and the list of shitty things goes on and on...
Then come and criticize US about what happened a couple hundred yrs ago.
The real comedy is explained above.
This thread is about US . and we will talk about US .
Open thread about India if you are so pissed off . and I will reply you there appropriately .
You can't just shrug off the issue of native Indians by your tirade against Indians. You are as much outsider to US as much any Indian , Chinese , Philipino ...you are occupying land and country of Red Indians .
and they continue to remain in exile in their own country ...that's the greatest tragedy .
I am not least bothered of your abusive rant about India. That's the only way people like you resort to when left with no argument .
I did not open this thread somebody else did . I just posted my opinion based on facts I cam across . Most of the numbers , statistics quoted actually comes from American historians themselves . You were the one who quoted me and started this conversation. You seem quite frustrated with it .
I expect you conduct this conversation in civil language . I may have used rhetoric in my post but I have not resorted to abuse as you have .
as member of PDF I have right to express my views . the fact that I am an indian does not preclude my right to comment on US , its past and it's present policies .
It's my firm opinion that most of the US policies has been against the interest of humanity.
US had no reason to go war with Iraq ....forced regime change ....kill millions of innocent civilians in process .
and it was not done to save humanity ...but to lay its hand over iraqi oil .
The fact that many Indians like many other nationals are eager to go to US in pursuit of prosperity , better jobs , better education ....does not and will not change the fact that US has killed more innocents than any other country .
People are by and large opportunistic ...what is good or what is right does not matter to them .
Just because many people are flocking today to US does not anyway give sanctity to anti human policies of US government .
US has created prosperous society for its citizen with good standard of living ...that fact remains . I am not challenging those facts .
Just because a country is rich and powerful does not make it right .
In fact as you climb up the ladder ...you are more and more opened to scrutiny ...because world looks upto you .
as much I feel sorry for social evils prevalent within my country and as much as I rue low standard of living of majority of countrymen .....I am still proud of tradition of peacefulness of my country . My country has never attacked and invaded other countries in her 5000 year history of existence .
It would do good to you and your country if you are able to introspect earnestly and honestly about the wrong perpetrated by your country .
The denial otherwise continues and same old policies get repeated again and again .
You should ask yourselves why your country needs to be at war constantly ....
Ever since your country had been born , it has known no respite . wars after wars continue ...and wars do not bring any good to anybody .
there has been no country on this earth with whom America have not been at war , conflict or antagonistic with at some or other point of time . why ?
If you closely watch the history of world in recent past ...you will notice that many of the conflicts , wars have been US legacy . and US has created never ending suffering in the world . all the mess created in process to protect its own ' perceived ' interests ...
I would be glad if you can reply to my post in logical fashion than continue your " you have no right to question my great country ' kind of oft repeated tag line ....
PDF is place to discuss and exchange ideas ....
Let us see if you can succeed in changing my views .
since this thread is about US ...let us confine the discussion to US .
If you wish to talk about India ...feel free to create thread about India ...and I shall join you on discussion there too .