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To: Neocon who wrote (3089)	1/31/2003 6:07:03 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15987

Unfortunately, I think that Churchill was right to consider the devolution of the colonies premature. Things like that are easy to say in hindsight.. and it well may be that the US should not have forced de-colonization. But even if the effect was brutal, the intent was fairly noble.. Personally, I can only take so much of this "paternalistic responsibility" that colonizing powers claim to have over their "holdings".. That they are "needed" to keep chaos from taking hold.. Sometimes order can only be established out of utter chaos, when people are forced to face some dark and unsavory choices... get along or resign themselves to savagery. As for 15 million people dying, I guess we could say that British colonization merely held off the inevitable.... Whenever order is imposed by an outside force, inevitably some faction is going to claim that the occupying power is to blame for all the problems of the colony. Hawk