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You don't think being merciful in victory is moral?
US treatment of the defeated Native Americans was extraordinarily merciful in historic terms. Defeated peoples who lost their territory have routinely disappeared. The US was under no obligation to offer treaties, but did. The US was under no obligation to offer reservations, but did. (And yes, many treaties were violated, but the fact of their existence was itself remarkable.) Did the Native Americans suffer? Yes. But the treatment they were given was unprecedented in its lenience.