History listed by facts is a delusion. History needs to be read both as a litany of events and as a parable taking the whole meaning as one idea. As a country, we have been the eagle that soars and the shadow that crawls on the ground, but, on balance, America has been a good thing for the world and undeniably a good thing for the citizens of the country in the time that I have lived.
Good for the AmerIndians (on balance, of course) you think?
Some of them might disagree, don't you think?