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Another link to the story for those that have surpassed their free connections to the NYTs - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/tulsi-gabbard-thinks-were-doomed/ar-AAFfxyX?ocid=spartandhp#image=AAFfxyX_1|6
Tulsi Gabbard Thinks We’re Doomed
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“She lists countries: Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Cuba, Vietnam, Iraq. Failure after failure, she says. To drive the point home, she wants to meet on a Sioux tribe reservation in North Dakota, where, she explains, the United States government committed its original atrocity.”
Up until now I had a lot of respect for Ms. Gabbard, but now, I no longer do.
For an Army officer to spout such historical revisionism shows one of two things; either they are pandering to identity politics, or they are either ignorant or turning a blind eye to historical facts.
Ms. Gabbard is in the wrong place if she wants to meet where the US government committed its original atrocity. She either needs to go back to the chambers of the United States Congress and the White House where the Indian Removal Act was enacted in 1830. This is what started the ‘Trail or Tears’ and instigated the Second and Third Seminole Wars. Or she could go to Florida, where the Treaty of Moultrie Creek (1823) was broken by the aforementioned legislation.
And what atrocity occurred on the Standing Rock Reservation?
The current issues with the Dakota Access Pipeline? Or are they trying to reference the event that led to the Wounded Knee Massacre. And if it is in direct reference to Wounded Knee, she/they are on the wrong reservation. So which atrocity is Ms. Gabbard and her team referencing?
Up until now I had a lot of respect for Ms. Gabbard, but now, I no longer do.
For an Army officer to spout such historical revisionism shows one of two things; either they are pandering to identity politics, or they are either ignorant or turning a blind eye to historical facts.
Ms. Gabbard is in the wrong place if she wants to meet where the US government committed its original atrocity. She either needs to go back to the chambers of the United States Congress and the White House where the Indian Removal Act was enacted in 1830. This is what started the ‘Trail or Tears’ and instigated the Second and Third Seminole Wars. Or she could go to Florida, where the Treaty of Moultrie Creek (1823) was broken by the aforementioned legislation.
And what atrocity occurred on the Standing Rock Reservation?
The current issues with the Dakota Access Pipeline? Or are they trying to reference the event that led to the Wounded Knee Massacre. And if it is in direct reference to Wounded Knee, she/they are on the wrong reservation. So which atrocity is Ms. Gabbard and her team referencing?
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I think we can go back a lot further than that to find atrocities. We have been shooting at and displacing Native Americans since well before the nation's founding.
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SSG Robert Webster
1SG (Join to see) - Normally, I would totally agree with you, but...
She or her representative state United States Government and not American Government.
And in the case of the US government the first major abrogation, in my opinion, came about because of the Indian Removal Act. Some could state the First Seminole War, but that was not only against the Seminole, but also the British and Spanish; where it was primarily for territorial gains (expansionism) and territorial protection (protectionism). Where the Indian Removal Act was instituted due to differing views on assimilation, acculturation, and sovereignty and underlying that the covetousness of the early European-American settlers. Though the issues in Georgia goes back to 1802, the Georgia Gold Rush of 1829 pushed the passing of the Act. And then with the enforcement of the Act, the virtual genocide of the southern and south-eastern Native Americans, even though the northern and north-eastern tribes were virtually extinct by that time.
She or her representative state United States Government and not American Government.
And in the case of the US government the first major abrogation, in my opinion, came about because of the Indian Removal Act. Some could state the First Seminole War, but that was not only against the Seminole, but also the British and Spanish; where it was primarily for territorial gains (expansionism) and territorial protection (protectionism). Where the Indian Removal Act was instituted due to differing views on assimilation, acculturation, and sovereignty and underlying that the covetousness of the early European-American settlers. Though the issues in Georgia goes back to 1802, the Georgia Gold Rush of 1829 pushed the passing of the Act. And then with the enforcement of the Act, the virtual genocide of the southern and south-eastern Native Americans, even though the northern and north-eastern tribes were virtually extinct by that time.
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