08-01-2015, 06:15 AM
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Originally posted by Bullwinkle
The victors always write the history books. Manifest destiny a poor excuse for taking lands and undermining cultures.
That's how it has always worked since the beginning of mankind. It's not manifest destiny it's freaking human history. Look at about every major civilization from the dawn of man(and woman).
The last wave of Polynesians killed off those who first inhabited the lands, Kamehameha killed off the rival chiefs to unify the Hawaiian Islands. Whenever a society had something good, another came along and conquered it.
The only reason we can sit and moan about it now is we are the biggest kid on the block, and that nuclear weapons makes war extremely costly between the major powers.