tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post8555805064522200958..comments2024-03-24T19:55:32.537-05:00Comments on The View from This Seat: America's First WarLKSeathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-56779788594755435732012-06-23T17:37:02.881-05:002012-06-23T17:37:02.881-05:00Clif, thanks for posting this link. A Thinking Fri...Clif, thanks for posting this link. A Thinking Friend who is a Canadian sent me an e-mail written from the Canadian viewpoint--and I am waiting for his permission to post his comments, which were quite interesting. Thanks for posting this link telling about the position of Canadian Mennonites.LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-89690602743574356692012-06-23T15:00:09.931-05:002012-06-23T15:00:09.931-05:00Here's a LINK to an article about the War of 1...Here's a <a href="http://www.mennoworld.org/2012/6/25/different-memory-war/" rel="nofollow">LINK</a> to an article about the War of 1812 from the Canadian viewpoint. The article is about Canadian Mennonites trying to make their nation aware of the story of those who opposed war and to be an alternative voice to Canada's war commemorations.Clif Hostetlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09192652526880912362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-24487104475167224942012-06-15T14:06:41.413-05:002012-06-15T14:06:41.413-05:00Thanks much, Clif and Larry, for posting your comm...Thanks much, Clif and Larry, for posting your comments this morning. The first comments received were in an e-mail from a Thinking Friend. He wrote,<br /><br />"Hear, hear!<br /><br />"The deeds of Andrew Jackson on the Indians, especially the 'civilized' tribes, hit far too close to home for my family history, and is the key reason he is on my list of the 10 worst presidents."LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-62261007324882506702012-06-15T10:12:25.862-05:002012-06-15T10:12:25.862-05:00I suppose getting rid of the "Indians" w...I suppose getting rid of the "Indians" was loudly justified with appeals to "national security" - which hasn't lost its appeal for many nefarious acts since...<br /><br />Actually, the first nefarious act that popped into mind upon reading the retrospective was the genocide of about 50,000 Armenian Christians by Turkey (Still the Ottoman Empire?) under cover of WWI.<br /><br />When power, generally coupled with $$ interests (hence my term P$W$R), is the primary issue - the weak, and/or innocent, are the dominant victims; all under cover of a plethora of high sounding words used to whip up popular sentiment...<br /><br />All the loud ranting does sell very well in the marketplace - and deafens all too many of those who claim Christ as their own, to His Still Small Voice...Larry Riedingernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-20354943959914245382012-06-15T09:51:41.253-05:002012-06-15T09:51:41.253-05:00War of 1812 is a war in which the USA lost every b...War of 1812 is a war in which the USA lost every battle (sort of) and won the war (sort of). The only important battle won was New Orleans which doesn't count because it was after the treaty. USA can claim to have won the war because they survived as a nation. Britain even paid damages to Washington to reimburse for slaves who had escaped to freedom under their jurisdiction (a detail not included in the text of the Star Spangled Banner song).Clif Hostetlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09192652526880912362noreply@blogger.com