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Thread #155759   Message #3667804
Posted By: Rapparee
10-Oct-14 - 09:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post-Civil War Marshall Plan
Subject: RE: BS: Post-Civil War Marshall Plan
Weeeell, the Brits have caused a lot of trouble for the world. Take, for example, the Opium Wars. Or Amritsar. Or blowing living people apart by tying them to the mouths of cannon. I mean, here are quotes from some Brits:

I wish I were commander-in-chief in India ... I should proclaim to them that I considered my holding that appointment by the leave of God, to mean that I should do my utmost to exterminate the race.

The question is not whether the English had a right to conquer India, but whether we are to prefer India conquered by the Turk, by the Persian, by the Russian, to India conquered by the Briton.

The first is Chuck Dickens, the second Karl Marx (lived and died and is buried in Blighty).

And that doesn't even begin to touch on such wonderful acts as the Boer Concentration Camps, St. Brice's Day, Dun an Or, Ulster in 1641, Uva, Gippsland, Croke Park, Peshawar, Batang Kali, Derry, Jhansi, Peshawar, and God alone knows what other atrocities.

For a "democracy" Old England certainly has a lot to answer for, doesn't it? Just look at the "Post-Civil War Marsall Plan" for the Irish or the Boers!