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Contributor: cfallon

Date: 2003-04-28 10:16:55


Because the US and the WEST won the Cold War does not absolve the Soviet Union of its ills. It does not mean the Soviet Union is no longer responsible for its part in the Cold War.


To blame the US for all the world's ills, when it seems that so much of the problems are remnants of European colonialism is revisionism at its best.

I don't think the alternative proposed by the rest of the world: that is, keep dictators in place because only us white-folk understand democracy will do anything but keep peace far from us.

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Contributor: codc01

Date: 2003-04-28 14:11:13


"...problems are remnants of European colonialism is revisionism at its best..."

You definition of colonialism only reflects the definition found in the dictionary.

Its broader than that, when a power imposes its values on others (through economic bribery, by helping out people
by imposing a set of values, etc..). I'd call it neo-colonialism.

Currently, the US falls in that category, but i'm not blaming the US, its normal when there is a sole superpower that it wishes to impose its views on others (I compare the US with the Roman Empire, since the Roman Empire brought a lot of civility and order in an otherwise chaotic world)... And the roman empire was not a dictatorship ...

The same was true with Europeans, when the UK colonized India, they brought in education and hospitals...

Its up to all of us individually to determine if this is right or wrong...

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