In "Latin America: From Colonization to Globalization" (p55), Chomsky recites roughly this paragraph:
<<< ... In the Revolutionary War in 1779, George Washington was known by the Indians as the "town destroyer," a slightly different vision of him than we learn. In the middle of the war, the "town destroyer," George Washington, decided to destroy the Iroquois civilization - an advanced civilization roughly on par with the colonists, except for military force and the use of violence - and right in the middle of the revolutionary war he announced to Lafayette on July 4th (he picked a nice day) that he was going to send the troops to destroy the Iroquois civilization, and they did. They managed to basically wipe them out and drive the people out and so on. And then another Clinton, DeWitt Clinton, the governor of New York, informed the defeated Iroquois that they'd have to pay an indemnity to the U.S. for the crime they committed. Well, it wasn't the U.S. then, it was the colonies, but they had to a pay an indemnity for a crime they committed by resisting the aggression that destroyed them. They had to pay an indemnity for what they did to us ... >>>
And then finishes off with the punch line:
<<< Now compare that to all the propaganda about the Sandinista treatment of the Miskito Indians. It's just a joke. >>>
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