Does any American know about the war of 1812?

I was just thinking about the lack of learning about the bad things that our nations have done in history classes, and well i wonderd if you ever learned about that war?

 

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Which war was that?

 

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erm the war when america tried to take canada it was between america and britian and canada.

 

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Was the War of independence? They dont teach us about that here because we lost .

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lol thought so

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i don't think you lost i think you just failed to take canada, but i think america was evil in that war, it's wierd how we never learn about the way of independence here cuase we lost.

 

Yeah it's funny but true. History is written by the winners.

 

kind of a shame realy,how were fed biased views from such an early age.

 

Well to tell the truth they may tell us that we lost FULLSTOP, but they wouldn't have made parades and holidays about it like america.

 

erm i dont quite folow the last part??

 

Everything I know about it is from a song
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/battleof.htm

 

"erm i dont quite folow the last part??"


I dont know maybe I'm saying something about how Americans go over the
he top when they win somthing.

 

If I'm not mistaken that was the occassion that we (the Brits) burned the White House and the Capitol Building. It's how we used to deal with terrorists masquerading as freedom fighters.

 

Back in the days before Geneva conventions and such. I fear that the West has lost its taste for war at precisely the worst time in history. I mean---look at how the world reacts to things like Guantanamo. It is sad that some of the enemy combatants which were freed from the prison were later found dead on battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq (at least, that's what the BBC tells me---I heard it in a radio interview the other day, but can't find a source to link to...Wikipedia is the best I can do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_released_Guantanamo_prisoners_who_allegedly_returned_to_battle).

So, who knows... It is certainly preferable to give our enemy the same treatment that we expect, but I don't know if this is tenable in the types of battles it looks like we'll be facing in the future. For example, US doctors treat injured Iraqi fighters, while injured American soldiers are decapitated and tortured.

 

yea like a taliban or some other terorist bombed my country, and then scotland i think and now the doctors have to treat him!!!! i mean wtf i would just let him die

 

Is thet your logic or that of the Iraqis?

 

why should we treat someone who tried to kill people though?

 

See my previous question again.

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i gues it's mine.

 

Now imagine you're an Iraqi living in Iraq; what's different?

 

nothing i do not expect them to treat our soldiers