tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post3770665275615175267..comments2023-08-24T07:27:12.657-07:00Comments on Contra O'Reilly: On the Fact that (According to Jim Powell's "Bully Boy") Teddy Roosevelt's Reason for Populating the West Was this Crazy Fear that it Would Soon Be Taken Over By a Foreign Power Will "take no prisoners" Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02315659209094683602noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-70789893674577951132015-08-31T19:54:37.794-07:002015-08-31T19:54:37.794-07:00Yep, he said it (and similar statements about Fili...Yep, he said it (and similar statements about Filipinos).Will "take no prisoners" Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02315659209094683602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-83495365048577704802015-08-30T20:12:14.052-07:002015-08-30T20:12:14.052-07:00TR was perhaps America's most aggressive, gran...TR was perhaps America's most aggressive, grandest imperialist. <br /><br />Perhaps he was projecting... thinking that all other nations were like his America.<br /><br />But, TBH, the "Great Powers" of that era were about as bad.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-66460378681423393712015-08-30T14:54:19.782-07:002015-08-30T14:54:19.782-07:00His reason for populating the West?
Wasn't it...His reason for populating the West?<br /><br />Wasn't it more like depopulating??<br /><br />He said: "I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth."dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.com