The other issue being that we're supposed to be a democratic, moral country.....

A Land War In America � The Dish: The native Americans were killing each other over land before the Europeans arrived and continued to do so after the Europeans arrived. So why is there so much guilt over it? I’d claim there are two factors. 1) The government that was responsible is still in power. Unlike other places in the world, people can claim that they were always there (they weren’t) or that was several revolutions ago; the current government would never do something like that. 2) It was so one sided. The native Americans never really had a chance. They had no written language(s), not even Bronze Age technology. Their numbers were their only real advantage and even that was diminished by diseases they had no immunity to brought by the Europeans. We cannot even claim that it was a fair fight.