Indian Wars redux.

Editor,

This is the logic the U.S. used during the Indian Wars. (Read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" for details.) American military expansion was always predicated on Indians' hostile intent and coincidentally extended American hegemony over resources Americans coveted.

So here is a translation: Obama has decided to erect a military fence around "our" oil in the Persian Gulf and blame it on Iran, whom the Americans insist is pursuing an offensive nuclear weapons capability, which it is not.

re: "Clinton Hints at ‘Defense Umbrella’ to Deter Iran" (7/23/2009)