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To: kumar who wrote (1767)	11/1/2002 1:02:26 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 6901

I was talking about a different man. :-) I've read of that massacre before. Yes, empires are built on the use of force. India did not invite the British in and never would have. Such use of force commonly backfires as it did in that case. It wakes people up to the reality that they are a conquered and occupied country and unites them against the imperialist. Even some fraction of the imperialist's own people refuse to contenance the slaughter and support the conquered. What can be said for the British is that they had learned by then that, once things reached a certain point, it was time to go. And do it without a bloody civil war. At the time the US reached for independence, they did not know that. Had it not been for the fact that they were also in a war with France at the same time, they probably could have beaten down the American uprising. And faced years and decades of unrest, terrorism, and probably eventually another war.