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Originally Posted by Chris Bell
The more I think about this cmac quote the more I relize just how revealing it is. Cmac is holding up as an example a philosophy that completely failed those that espoused it. The Sioux were in a fight for their lives, for their way of life and they got their asses handed to them. Now 150 or so years later CMAC is espousing this philosophy as one that we should admire and follow. One could only conclude two things. One, CMAC wants the same result for us that the Sioux experienced. Or, two CMAC is going mad...repeating the same thing over and over but expecting different results. Either way turing the other cheek when your in a fight for life is never a good idea.
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You are one intellectual giant.
THEY DIDN'T STAND A CHANCE!
Anyway, they didn't take Black Elk's advice. It was the white's who brought the concept of scalping to the Injuns, you know. It was the means you could prove how many you'd killed and thereby collect your bounty.
The factors in our conflict are about as different from back then as they could be. We have most of the power, way more than back then even, and we had an overwhelming edge back then. Black Elk didn't say, "Let's lay down so they can slit our throats more easily." He was at Little Big Horn, as a warrior, FWIW. I suspect you have the barest clue about him or the Siuox.
One thing that is the same is people still have the option of lowering themselves to the standards of those they despise, or of taking the high road.
I don't know if you noticed, boy wonder, but our current stratagy in
THE WAR ON TERROR is succeeding mainly in bankrupting us and enriching the Chinese. That, and finding us new, improved enemies. Oh we're smart all right.