>>I wasn't thinking of the U.S. but other western countries throughout history...
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>what about the suppression of native indians?

Not a fair comparison. I started this by talking about soldiers being willing on an order to kill their own. I doubt they ever thought of the natives as 'their own'. Killing an alien species has always been relatively easy for soldiers, but I just can't imagine how they can turn on their own as they do in places like Myanmar or Zimbabwe or China.

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>>>>>It seems most of the countries that haven't tried to kill their own, have been western civilizations.
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>>>>Uh oh, not gonna touch that with a 10 foot pole... :O)
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>>>Hmmm, I must have missed the reports about Bush ordering the extermination of hundreds of thousands of people here in the US? I don't even remember Bill "The Evil One" Clinton doing anything comparable to Saddam's exterminations, or Pol Pot, or Hitler, or . . . .