http://www.historynet.com/interview-with-historian-paul-hedren.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Fri, 24 May 2013 11:21:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.historynet.com/interview-with-historian-paul-hedren.htm#comment-800414 John Koster Tue, 08 May 2012 01:05:52 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13685447#comment-800414 I believe the quote Paul Hedren is looking for in his thoughtful and humane article is from Chief Red Cloud. The final irony in 19th Century cycle of Plains Indian wars may be that Thomas Twiss, agent to the Oglala Lakota in 1855-1861, had the Oglala Lakota, tthe Sicangu Lakota, the Cheyenne, and the Arapaho signed up for reservations and annuities in 1860 (!) and Congress declined to pay $115,000 for the annuties and spiked a deal, which the Indians probably would have honored. Brave as they were, they were intelligent enough to know that the United States was too big for them. Congress later paid for three wars against the same Indians that killed many hundreds of Anericans on both sides. The consummate irony of the 20th Century cycle of Asian wars -- Indian Wars fought overseas, if you will -- is that in late 1941 Japan had offered to break the alliance with Hitler and make peace with China, where the Japanese and Chinese were stalemated anyway, if we restored their oil supply. A Soviet mole in the U.S. Treasury Department spiked a plan that would have worked for everybody -- China, Japan, and the United States -- because he wanted to save Stalin from a two-font war with Germany that would not have involved the United States. Check out "Operation Snow." We spent the next 30 years losing American lives in shoring up what used to be the Japanese Empire, lost anther 90,000 Americans in Korea and Viet Nam, lost hald of one country and all of the other to Communism, and killed more Asians than the Japanese ever did... I believe the quote Paul Hedren is looking for in his thoughtful and humane article is from Chief Red Cloud. The final irony in 19th Century cycle of Plains Indian wars may be that Thomas Twiss, agent to the Oglala Lakota in 1855-1861, had the Oglala Lakota, tthe Sicangu Lakota, the Cheyenne, and the Arapaho signed up for reservations and annuities in 1860 (!) and Congress declined to pay $115,000 for the annuties and spiked a deal, which the Indians probably would have honored. Brave as they were, they were intelligent enough to know that the United States was too big for them. Congress later paid for three wars against the same Indians that killed many hundreds of Anericans on both sides.
The consummate irony of the 20th Century cycle of Asian wars — Indian Wars fought overseas, if you will — is that in late 1941 Japan had offered to break the alliance with Hitler and make peace with China, where the Japanese and Chinese were stalemated anyway, if we restored their oil supply. A Soviet mole in the U.S. Treasury Department spiked a plan that would have worked for everybody — China, Japan, and the United States — because he wanted to save Stalin from a two-font war with Germany that would not have involved the United States. Check out "Operation Snow." We spent the next 30 years losing American lives in shoring up what used to be the Japanese Empire, lost anther 90,000 Americans in Korea and Viet Nam, lost hald of one country and all of the other to Communism, and killed more Asians than the Japanese ever did…

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