Ask the Native Americans and the Africans who were their slaves if they weren't using fear tactics
Okay, I'd love to flaunt my history some more. You mentioned the British along with them...
Oh dear me... we enslaved them before separation. Meaning citizens of British colonies enslaved them!

Many founding fathers apposed slavery *Cough! John Adams! Cough! Thomas Jefferson! Cough!* But around their time it was nearly standard by then. (Hence why ol' Thomas was hypocritical in owning them.)
And yet they found it was to touchy of an issue seeing as they could barely get the continental congress to listen to them to separate in the first place.... OHHHHHHH Who knows their history!!?!?!?
Can I get a WOOT WOOT!!! Can I get a UH UH!!! -Raises the Roof-
Moral of the story, if you want to blame anyone on the subject of slavery, blame the British citizens who came over to found the colonies. THEN after separation you can blame the American people for letting profit (i.e. using blacks on plantations) blind them on the subject of morality, and THEN lastly (but more importantly) blame the congress of the new found country for holding in their safety zones. If they did not want to separate when their
own people were being oppressed, they certainly weren't going to care about the people who were already enslaved.
History books have skewed it to state things like we couldn't wait to separate! On the contrary they couldn't give two flying flicks about their own people, only a smaller percentage of the founding fathers had any intention of separation despite the oppression of their own people.
OH MAN! I just... oo... oh my... the knowledge it's... it's .....power.
Things are rarely black and white, I realize. But I am not going to say I believe the middle eastern terrorists of today have any redeeming qualities to them. I am quite sure when we find out we need to leave, and we do, the country will fall apart. (Which is why we should have never gone in.)
When it does fall apart those terrorists that we spent way to much fighting (seeing as it's guerrilla tactics and there is no single army so there really is
no way to win) will rush in, and seize power for their own, and most undoubtedly not for the people of Iraq's benefit.
Edit: But yes, I suppose we should probably drop it, this IS a Hulk forum. If you feel like continuing any time, my AIM / Yahoo is over under my name <--