It is most certianly a mistake in many historians oppinions to look at history through the rose colored glassess of contemporary society and or apply modern standards to the perspective of those who lived in the past.

It is also a mistake to try and paint any given period of history or it's people with the brush strokes of any one individual as indicative for all of the people in any given age.

Terrorism simpley did not exist in the 1830's as a consept the way it does today.

What Andrew Jackson did in his time is hardely comparable in the same all encompassing light to what Adolf Hitler did in his, at least not when one views such things using the moral perspectives of the time periods in which their respective actions took place.

By making comparrisons to other countries and the actions of other groups in the original post, (in both contemporary and pervious eras) one leaves open the door, if not invites, comparisons between the Untied States and other entities of eaither age and how they effected each other, regardles of weather or not one is speaking of the past or the present.

China is most certianly not just the USA from 50 years ago. China if anything has a longer history of being influenced by nations other than the USA historically speaking and is a richly diverse cultured nation in it's own rite, whose identity has evolved over thousands of years. It is uniquely it's own thing and it survived european contact relatively intact compared to many other people in the past.

What happened to the American Indian peoples of the "New World" over the course of the past 518 years of contact with the Europeans was in fact a constantly evolving proccess and the actions of any one man in any one single historical period cannot stand as a "catch all" to describe it, however saddening and regretable that evolutionary proccess turned out for one side or the other.

The United States of Jackson's day and age was just one of many colonial by products of Eurocentric Imperialism that has permeated the world; not only during that time period (including China) but over the course of history as it changed into its present form, which we see expressed in todays struggles between the so called "superpowers" for economic and political dominion over the world.

The Founding Fathers set very lofty goals for it's people (or any people for that matter). Goals that they themselves and their posterity have failed on many occassions to allways obtain in the spirit in which they were written, during the course of it's history perhaps, but not goals that we the people have abbandoned outright nor intend to no matter how weak our present grasp may appear to become.