I don’t see Columbus as the villain in the discovery scenario-if there is a “villain” in that episode of history, it is Spanish greed-all Columbus did was call the attention of Europeans to a place that no one was paying much attention to up till then, and got paid for it-the rest would have happened eventually anyway-it was pretty much inevitable...
But I don’t see the Spaniards as being any “nicer” than the Native Americans-they were just a few centuries more advanced in their methods of conquest, and they were past cannibalism and human sacrifice. Other than that, it was a brutal world everywhere and spoils of war were the reward of the winner...
Obama and the rest really ought to quit bashing Columbus...
I wholeheartedly agree.