Astonishing, isn’t it, that so many Americans expect other nations to sit back and take it when Our Rulers invade. Those benighted foreigners should thank “our boys” for “liberating” them, jingoists moan, rather than obsess over the friends and relatives said boys slaughtered or the village they destroyed while establishing “democracy.” But when the shoe was on the other foot, Americans objected — and violently — to invasion. Joseph Plumb Martin fought in the Continental Army during the American Revolution; a few years after one battle, his troop happened to bivouac again near the site. He described a ghastly hike … Continue reading What Americans Used To Think of Invaders