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The people who “came for” @maxboot by asking him not to glorify the genocide of native peoples included ambassadors and historians, veterans and statesmen. For his WaPo editors to reduce them all to a “twitter mob” coarsens our public conversation as much as anything here. 
Feel obliged to thread in his response here.
2 things:
1. It’s no misreading. He cited 300y of continent-wide violence, from the 1609 founding of the Jamestown colony (or before?) to the 1890 massacre of Lakota women and children at Wounded Knee, as a favorable model of “policing the frontiers of the Pax Americana.”
1. It’s no misreading. He cited 300y of continent-wide violence, from the 1609 founding of the Jamestown colony (or before?) to the 1890 massacre of Lakota women and children at Wounded Knee, as a favorable model of “policing the frontiers of the Pax Americana.”
2. Thoughtful, experienced people with real foreign policy and military backgrounds *asked Boot not to* represent the genocidal Indian Wars as admirable policy; that happened whether if they misread his column or not. Treating them as a mob of trolls is coarse and disrespectful.
