Re: hunger

Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Mon, 09 Mar 1998 03:43:11 -0500


At 09:07 AM 3/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Because the atrocities that were commited by many powers during the
imperial era so
>besmirched the colonial concept, it is politically impossible to engage in
such a
>practice today, no matter how badly needed it is, and how well publicly
overseen it might
>be. Of course, the PC term today would be 'nation building' but everyone
knows what it
>means.

This smells fishy to me. Of COURSE colonialism is good for the colonists.
British (ex) colonists have done swimmingly. Better than the French and
the Spanish, even. But what about the natives? You can't just invade
someone else's country and then justify it by saying "Hey, look, it sure
was good for us colonists."

Colonialism is bad for the natives. Let's stick to eliminating
authoritarianism and promoting freedom, eh?

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