Um, it’s called an analogy. The only point is that deployments like the ones in Syria and Afghanistan can last a long time with no clearcut victory in sight. US troops are not carrying out genocide. They are actually stopping those who would—the Taliban and ISIS.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1090757514470309889 …
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The Indian Wars were actually a series of discrete, time-limited conflicts that ended in US victories, with the exception of Red Cloud's War.
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Well I hope the impressive winning percentage makes you feel better about genocide.
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Not so sure about the not plundering
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Jeet, for the win.
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Jeet and Max both for the loss
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how about length of time us army should've stayed in south for reconstruction
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Also, there was an ongoing folk migration, for good or ill, that swamped tribes of the First Peoples. The Indian Wars ended pretty decisively as far as the tribes were concerned. Nothing like that in Afghanistan.
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Nor do they have the justification, at least in their own eyes, of protecting agriculturist settlers.
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So the whole million or so Iraqi people killed for Halliburton to extract resources and defense and construction contractors to profit doesn't count?
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