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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (14815)12/26/2001 11:35:37 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Since the British had a hard time telling the little brown peoples apart,

I don't think that was so much the problem as trying to get all of various little "brown people" to paid less homage to their family clans, and give their loyalty to a national state.

Every tribal chieftain wanted to be the leader that unified the various distincts extended family units (tribes) that they had been fighting with for hundreds of years (even while under Ottoman rule).

The British conquered an empire, and then spent tremendous amounts of money and economic wealth trying to develop it into something that would return a profit to them, and even more in defending it from the Italians and Germans.

But then the US stepped in after WWII and told Britain they had to decolonize and give their Ottoman territories the right of self-determination.

Hawk
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