But in presenting the brutality of white settlers and Comanche warriors as identical, he appears to condone the genocide of the native Americans as just another example of history's unbroken string of conquests, inevitable and therefore guilt-free.
The country's quick submission is said to be the consequence of a poor cooperation between Stephen Tomašević and his noblemen, but it is perhaps most accurate to attribute it to the people's low morale and general belief that the conquest was inevitable.
In his 1852 address at the opening of the Athenaeum in Richmond, Va., the Rev. John Robertson spoke of "the piratical Saxons" as "mere barbarians" whose "ignorance" had made the Norman Conquest all but inevitable.
While Mendicant Bias had been specifically created to defeat the Gravemind, the Flood leader convinces the AI that the Flood is a utopian ideal, and that its conquest of the galaxy is inevitable.
For better or worse, the Orthodox Christians of Byzantium refused in the end to make the doctrinal compromises with the West which might have won them military support against the advancing Turks, and this made the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans, in 1453, inevitable.
But he goes on to say that the conquest of Lydda and the expulsion of its inhabitants "were an inevitable phase of the Zionist revolution that laid the foundation for the Zionist state".
"I DESIRE that the terror of my name should guard our frontiers more potently than chains or fortresses, that my word should be for the natives a law more inevitable than death," wrote Alexei Yermolov, Russia's legendary general who waged total war during his conquest of the north Caucasus in the early 19th century.
The lack of debate was inevitable, given that the operation was, as Robert Gates, the defence secretary, later admitted, put together "on the fly" to block Colonel Qaddafi's imminent conquest of Benghazi.
