Is there anything more constant in American history than the impulse to cloak American wrongdoing in the moral failures of their victims? > It seems a little c

Is there anything more constant in American history than the impulse to cloak American wrongdoing in the moral failures of their victims? > It seems a little crass to say "it felt like a genocide" It seems more than a little crass to nitpick whether or not the word "genocide" is appropriate in reference to an invasion that killed 25% of southern fighting age men. The Yankees burned homes and granaries as a matter of policy, for the express purpose of starving civilians, which is a war crime. Genocide is a fitting word.