>The American Revolution wasn't Americans killing their own. They were fighting the nasty and alien British under the nasty and alien king.
Gee, and I thought we were British subjects at that time....
>>I was primarily speaking about today, not over a hundred years ago. I don't recall reading about the US, Canada, GB, France, Italy, etc being involved in genocide such as I cited in the other examples.
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>That's true unless you include WWII when many countries were turning over their countrymen. Agreed that was not necessarily a government edict, and I suppose it is different. Although, Spain, for example is usually considered a 'western' country, but their record is not so hot under Franco. And that is well into the latter half of the 1900s.
True, but by and large, I stand by my statements.
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