wrote:

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).

I don't see why it can't be both. I think it's safe to say that both
Europe and the US have a lot of blame to share. Sure, a lot of European
countries have tended to follow more progressive paths post-WWII, but
there's still a lot of **** there. I watched Michael Moore's "Bowling
for Columbine" last night which had, among other things, footage of the
British atrocities in India, and the French in Algeria.

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