Quote: After all, examine the history books and see if you can come up with ANY difference between the American notion of Manifest Destiny or the articulations of the Monroe Doctrine or Teddy Roosevelt's "Corrolary" and Hitler's Liebensraum. I have never been able to do so. And the language and intent behind his corrolary and what is known as the Brezhnev doctrine are also, essentially indistinguishable one from another.
Um, how about 'no'? Sounds like too much work. Instead I'll offer up more unfounded opinion.
While it's true that european settlers "wanted them out of the way," I doubt you can prove that the systematic extermination of the native peoples (who I would prefer to call "pre-caucasian settlers" but that's even more cumbersome than "native americans") of this continent was an official policy of our fledgling government. It may have seemed like it was, but if they really wanted to, they could have. It was just another war against a civilization that was technologically inferior. They were conquered, brutally and maliciously, but not exterminated.
I wonder if anyone here, much more learned than I, can give us an example in human history of true genocide, where an entire segment of human population, whether based on "race" or nationality, was truly and completely exterminated?
I have this whole other diatribe (pardon the expression) on the state of modern tribal existance that I'm just not going to get into right now because I lack the energy and I have too much work to do. Oh, and this thread was about muslims and such.
