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“Had he slain the entire tribe in fair battle, no just condemnation could have been pronounced against him,” remarked one observer, “but to violate a flag of truce, under pretence of peace-making, was a wrong that fair-minded men, everywhere, condemn as an outrage against humanity and civilization.” As, indeed, they did a generation later—but only when Captain Jack committed that wrong.
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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