I have been amused by the bumper sticker I occasionally come across: People for the Separation of Us and Them.

My biggest problem with the assertion about the massive deaths of Native Americans is that the diseases and plagues that destroyed much of the population were brought to them by "us"--by European explorers and settlers. And "we" used that knowledge, delivering plague blankets, deliberately sending in people who had smallpox, etc. in order to hasten the advance of diseases. So to say it wasn't "us" is disingenuous at best.

I'd also like to ask why, if "the Vietnamese" believe that the war wasn't about "us," do they call it "The American War"? I think they know pretty well who was invading their country and killing them and it was not the Chinese. That many Americans convinced ourselves we were stopping the spread of Chinese Communism is clear, but that might make the war not about "them," but hardly not about "us".