Japanese point out that no one is forcing Americans to sell their property or businesses.
There is also nothing new in churning economic cycles that, over time, have forced Americans from farm to factory, from country to city.
He argued before a group of Confederate veterans that forcing African Americans to labor was a means to hold them in their proper social position.
Feuds between religious orders and non-Catholics often forced black Americans out of the schools.
This delay has forced Americans to cancel business, leisure trips, and trips for study abroad.
Later, the citizens of the new United States forced many Native Americans off their land and westward.
It aimed to force wealthy Americans who were avoiding taxes through tax shelters to pay at least something to the government.
Concerns for security have already forced Americans to flash identification far more frequently than they would ever have imagined before the terrorist attacks of 2001.
But such fighters seek to force Americans out of Iraq by violent struggle, and offering them amnesty would run counter to American policy here.
Still, the turns of history have forced Americans occasionally to adjust their attitudes toward failure.