The Reid wrote:
Following up to Bert Hyman

I lay all of Africa and the middle east, most of Asia and a good
chunk of South America on Europe's door step.

then you should start thinking about US actions in south America,
rather than ignoring more recent history in favour of cosily
blaming the worlds ills on the empire building of earlier
centuries.

S America, SE Asia, where shall we stop?

And as for Africa and the ME, are the situations there due to European
empires, or to post-empire meddling, such as US support for UNITA in
the Angolan civil war (to mention just one example).

Mr B;