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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (108592)7/28/2003 9:51:43 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 

As a recall from somewhere, Turman did it in order to keep the French in NATO.

The British did the transporting. Didn't want any examples being set for the Burmese, the Malays, or the Indians. Sandcastles in the rising tide, of course, but they had no way of knowing that.

Have you ever wondered how different things might look now if the European colonial powers had acknowledged the obvious and voluntarily relinquished their colonies, with some effort at transition?
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