Reply #22: BE Oppressed India 300 yrs!

[momster]

Amazing how the ABC proves that ol' Biblical thingie about the mote in your neighbor's eye. I don't see him mea culpa-ing for Queen Victoria's 'little wars' or the British Empire's own oppression of damn near everybody -- the world map didn't turn pink by itself, did it? Just the Indian Mutiny and the brutality with which is was put down would have been evidence enough (mind, the Indians were fairly brutal as well...the Black Hole of Calcutta is no myth. But two wrongs...etc.)

Mind you, I wish our own Morons in Chief had at least *read* a little British History -- say about the 1842 Afghan War? Maybe we wouldn't have gone in quite so cavalierly if we'd known how the Afghans had kicked the British Army's butt way back then. The BA was the most powerful and technologically advanced military force in the world and they were devastated by the Afghans who just bloody wouldn't give up.