Current Events — HabitableZone

Current Events » in reply to Let's see what Theodore Roosevelt has to say on this matter.

Re: Let's see what Theodore Roosevelt has to say
Tom Brosz — (archived)

<To Theodore Roosevelt, the hero of George Bush and the liberal commentators who gushed over Bush's sense of "righteous mission" during the 1991 Gulf slaughter, "the most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages,"
establishing the rule of "the dominant world races." The hideous and cowardly Sand Creek massacre in Colorado in 1864, Nazi-like in its bestiality, was "as righteous and beneficial a deed as ever took place on the frontier." This "noble minded missionary," as contemporary ideologues term him, did not limit his vision to the "beasts of prey" who were being swept from their lairs within the "natural boundaries" of the American nation. The ranks of savages included the "dagos" to the south, and the "Malay bandits" and "Chinese halfbreeds" who were resisting the American conquest of the Philippines, all "savages, barbarians, a wild and ignorant people, Apaches, Sioux, Chinese boxers," as their resistance amply demonstrated.

--Leftist hero Noam Chomsky on Theodore Roosevelt



And this quote is no more relevant to the point I was making--the core motivations of the protest movement--than yours was.

Log in or register to post.

The whole thread (37 posts)