>>And one of the reasons I think his screed was unfortunate is that
>>it's made it more difficult to condemn the horrid treatment of
>>American Indians.
>
>Why is that?
Because people - whether nonideological or not - will throw Churchill's quote in your face whenever you bring up U.S. brutality, whether in Indochina or Kansas. He's made it a lot easier to dismiss critiques of imperialism and genocide.
I have mixed feelings about the Timothy Burke analysis I just forwarded, but I think he's onto something when he says that Churchill's worldview is fundamentally nationalist and monochromatic. We're either innocent victims or guilty perpetrators; there's no room for contradictions there at all.
Doug