Miles,

Let me help your consistent ignorance on the US. Scholars vary on how many native Americans were living in what is now considered the US. The numbers vary between 1 and 15 million so lets call it 7 million. Infectious diseases such as small pox killed up to 90% of native east coast communities within a few years of first contact with Europeans. Scholars also differ on the amount that died from European diseases across the continent but the numbers are between 50-70% of the continent. Anthropologists calculated the native populations in 1800 (24 years after the US first existed) at around 600k. Native body counts from American/Indian conflicts also vary between 100-500k. In the grand scheme of things we are talking between 100-500k caused by US conflicts compared to 3.5 to 5 million from disease. So unless you are suggesting that Europeans killing off most of the Native American population because of their runny noses before the US even existed is the equivalent to the Holocaust I'd suggest your pick up a book or two.