War Is Not a Modern Invention, Archeological Research Shows

‘Columbus didn’t discover the “New World” — he invaded it!!’

Many of us have seen T-shirts with that message in Greenwich Village and other progressive strongholds on what used to be called Columbus Day. “Who’s the savage? Modern man!” sings Rob Halford of Judas Priest in the 1978 song “Savage,” right after extolling the virtues of native tribes who were “born with the stars” and were “happy and peaceful” in their jungle kingdoms until the arrival of materialistic and warlike Western invaders who had the gall to claim to be civilized. Halford’s attitudes are common in pop music: Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett lists “the Zulu and the Navajo” among the victims of Western crimes in the hit song “Short Memory.”

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‘Columbus didn’t discover the “New World” — he invaded it!!’

Many of us have seen T-shirts with that message in Greenwich Village and other progressive strongholds on what used to be called Columbus Day. “Who’s the savage? Modern man!” sings Rob Halford of Judas Priest in the 1978 song “Savage,” right after extolling the virtues of native tribes who were “born with the stars” and were “happy and peaceful” in their jungle kingdoms until the arrival of materialistic and warlike Western invaders who had the gall to claim to be civilized. Halford’s attitudes are common in pop music: Midnight Oil’s Peter Garrett lists “the Zulu and the Navajo” among the victims of Western crimes in the hit song “Short Memory.”