Who Knew?

by Tom DiLorenzo on August 24, 2026

That genocide could be so expensive, asks retired U.S. Airforce Lieutenant Colonel (and self-described “aspiring anarcho-capitalist”) Karen Kwiatkowski. She refers of course to the Israeli state’s “thugacracy” and its wars of genocide in Palestine, Lebanon, and elsewhere.

The Israelis should study the history of the American West. As soon as the “Civil War” ended the U.S. government commenced a war of genocide against the Plains Indians “to make way for the [government-subsidized] transcontinental railroads,” as General William Tecumseh Sherman, the commanding officer of this quarter-century war of genocide, said. Sherman was known for his statement that “the only good Indian is a dead Indian,” and regretted in his memoirs that his armies did not kill every last one of them. It took 25 years to kill most of the Indians (some 60,000 according to some estimates) with the rest sent to concentration camps called “reservations” under the supervision of the “Bureau of Indian Affairs.” There is no other such “Bureau” for Mexicans, Italians, Irish, or any other ethnic group. Keeping a standing army for all of this for twenty-five years must have cost a pretty penny.