Gautam said: > 2. If Britain had peacefully left its colonies in, > say, 1910 or so, I think we would say that, on the > whole, the British Empire did good for the world. > They held on too long
I think it's not so much that they held on too long, but that they left too suddenly. A more coherent, decades-long policy of disengagement aimed at leaving a string of thriving capitalist democracies behind would've been a much better idea. Instead, the detritus of Empire was the origin and cause of much of the current problems in Africa and the Middle East. (1910 wasn't even the point at which the Empire acquired its greatest territorial size - that happened during the inter-war years.) Rich GCU Not An Imperialist _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
