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Re: When is a website "independent" and when is it "part of"?
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Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:30:37 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> While you're busily condemning the US for trying to influence affairs you
> might want to make sure that the UK colonial record is clean first. It's not.
> The US was a colonial power, briefly, mostly by accident, but has a pretty
> good record (our biggest colony being the Phillipines, and we did fairly well
> at running that second hand colony and fairy well at transitioning it). The UK
> has a long bloody record of repression as a colonial power and a terrible
> record at stopping and leaving stable governments behind.
>
> Iraq-Kuwait
> India to India-Pakistan
> Pakistan to Pakistan-Bengladesh
> Palestine to Israel-Jordan
> Ireland to Ireland-Northern Ireland
> The Tamil Tigers
> Rhodesia
> South Africa
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> All caused by fools somewhere in London drawing lines on maps.
I can add at least South East Anatolia and Cyprus to the list.
I believe that, too, if Uncle Sam puts his hands on an issue, it is
solely for his own gain (no matter political or monetary), and either he
gained at the and or not is nothing to the with initial intend. But it
is a wrong thing? Full no. It is not wrong in anyway for a government
putting its own country's benefit on top of others. Every country trying
to make this in someway, whether they are successful at that or not is
solely their own problem.
It's not a big power of international politics now as it was till the
end of the WW1, but UK was the champion in playing with other country's
and people's faith for it's own benefit. And I agree that he totally
screwed up at places wherever he put its hands on, leaving decades old
wars and hatred that most of them still continuing.
I always think that when putting blame on some other peoples
background/history, it's wise to reconsider your very own.
Selçuk
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