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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (30327)10/24/2006 9:04:02 AM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 541807
 
In my experience studying in the UK in the 1980's then working with British diplomats in several countries, I didn't see any evidence that their colonial past had carried over to the modern day. Their diplomats were no more prepared or insightful than ours in most cases, and they didn't bring any institutional memory to the table that changed their perspective.

Britain changed a lot when it became a postcolonial power in the 1960's. They have also swayed back and forth in their domestic politics from Old Labor to Thatcherism to New Labor. They really have been a work in progress trying to find themselves for a long time now.

I was a bit surprised that Blair decided to go whole hog supporting Bush in Iraq, but the opposition to that policy in the UK is based pretty much on the same premises as here.

Tito and Saddam - some similarities, certainly, and the societies they ruled over had no natural fabric holding them together except the states they created. But Tito was a fairly ordinary authoritarian while Saddam had a vicious homicidal streak that made him much worse, in my book. I knew people in Croatia and Bosnia who were jailed under the old era, but never tortured or killed for opposing Tito (that I know of - there certainly may be cases out there).
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