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2005-02-11 Britain

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Posted by tipper 2005-02-11 10:51:02 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Steyn kicks ass with size 16 steel toed wuppin' boots.

Posted by ed 2005-02-11 11:42:27 AM|| 2005-02-11 11:42:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Article: Lord Hurd evidently thinks ânation-buildingâ is utopian hooey. Maybe it is. But one reason the region is in the mess itâs in is that, in 1922, fag-end British imperialism was too fainthearted to inculcate British ânation-buildingâ values (as in India) but still arrogant enough to complicate their politics, impose weak outside emirs as their kings, elevate minority groups into the ruling class â and then scram.

I think the biggest mistake had nothing to do with elevating minority groups into the ruling class - it had to do with putting nationalities in single countries that had been fighting each other for thousands of years. This gave the largest groups an empire they hadn't earned, and expropriated the minority groups of the lands their ancestors had owned long before the British ever showed up. The biggest problem wasn't imperialism, where the British ruled quite competently, but the dissolution of empire, which subjected the minorities to tyranny, expropriation and slaughter.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-02-11 11:58:46 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-02-11 11:58:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 was too fainthearted to inculcate British ânation-buildingâ values (as in India)

and South Africa, where they stayed long enough to give it its advantage over the rest of Africa.
Unfortunately the Rhodesias, similarly endowed, decided to dispense with their inheritance.

Posted by Cynic 2005-02-11 4:20:40 PM|| 2005-02-11 4:20:40 PM|| Front Page Top

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