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To: average joe who wrote (71658)	12/12/2009 2:02:03 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Mostly, when conquering people and territory, the conquered are enslaved, killed, eaten or simply dispossessed and left to their own devices. The British were far more genteel, forming agreements with locals for mutual benefit and joint government. That led to the land problems but it did enable a vast empire to form with fantastic economic success. Maori tribes could see it was far better to sign up for trade and profit rather than be left on the outside, with the British selling muskets to the enemy tribes who were not so squeamish about conquest and what went well in the hangi [an excavated hot rock cooking process]. Right now, there's a trial going on regarding Srebenica and how the Serbs handled the 7000 or so Moslem males who they took prisoner under the supervision of the United Nations who stood by and allowed it to happen - useless wimps. Radovan Karadzic is following Milosevic: trial-ch.org Given the ideology to which Moslems subscribe = Islamic Jihad and defeat and killing of infidels or enslavement of them in dhimmitude, it's not necessarily unethical to reply in kind. The Moslem invasion and conquest of Spain, attempts on France, success into the Balkans was not exactly genteel. That was the way things were back in the day. Genghis Khan didn't arrive by invitation only. Adolf's blitzkrieg was not exactly polite, with genocide part of the deal for those selected. The American Empire is even more effective than the British one. I'm part of it. I send my money to Qualcomm, get a share of the profits, selling stuff worldwide and hiring people worldwide. The USA troops keep the barbarians at bay. They didn't arrive and confiscate my property. I voluntarily signed up - it was better than what my own country enabled. I'm like a modern Maori, joining up with the foreigners. China's conquest of Tibet, the Uyghurs en.wikipedia.org Taiwanese, Canton, Manchuria etc was not genteel with voluntary treaties. Mr Dalai Llama is even now roaming the world having fled the conquest and killing. Mqurice