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bemildred

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9. Yes, British colonial habits and caste politics were very pernicious in the long run.

Mon Jan 21, 2013, 10:07 AM

Jan 2013

A recipe for violence. Most of them have already blown up a time or two. And then there is us, the permanent explosion.

Syria was French, but it's the same deal, minority rule, for the loyalty to the colonial master, and a recipe for killing when the master leaves.

That gets far too little attention, the shitty job of colonial rule they did.

They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace. -- Tacitus

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