Words like this are fun for schoolkids but don’t say anything at all about what was actually done. It’s an effort to take something phenomenally complex and reduce it to a slogan. Slogans are good for fostering outrage, but not much else, and they distract attention from detail. Leave slogans to politics, not history.
It’s an invasive species that has been working its way west across North America. I hadn’t heard of it in SoCal yet; this would be a drag. OP, what lake was it in? There may be rangers or similar authorities you could notify so they could look.
I’m not commenting on the legality or appropriateness or intelligence of either invasion, but on the nature of the goals behind them.
One was an attempt at forcing a regime change, the other was an attempt at regime elimination and annexation of territory.
Both can and should be criticized, but not for being the same thing. They weren’t.
My mom was part of that hippie generation that gave LOTR its first taste of success. I read her copies about 1970 or so. That generation of fandom was quite different from what there is today. Now we’ve got volume after volume of additional information and stories and wonderfulness, but back then there was LOTR, The Hobbit, and some scholarly works. We couldn’t even be baffled by the Silmarilion yet!
No specific quote, just a thought that Vimes has several times…If you’ll do something bad for a good reason, you’re that much closer to doing something bad for a bad reason.
If that’s what you want to take from it, it’s up to you. That was not my intention. What I said is entirely true.