RE: France to send 2,000
fair enough, the only thing I find interesting is France's role in this anyway. People have drawn parallel's with the Lebanon to Vietnam, now in way they are right you know?.
Both being former colonies of France, both being in a whole heap of trouble since cutting off (literally) relations with their colonial masters.
My whole point was that Britain was different to France in many ways, they still are, France believed in a different kind of empire, an empire without borders making it one big world-wide "France", where as Britain's was more Romanesque, in that local viceroy's had most of the rule, but it was also realised that that rule could only be achived with the consent of the ruled.
And in the end, for a number of differing reasons, Britain decided to "let them go", perhaps because it knew it couldnt keep them, but also perhaps because it was the right thing to do, certainly while fighting communist insurgence in Malaya, Britain never tried to bamboozal America into fighting it's colonial wars in the cover of anti-communism.
But really, yes you are right, a lot of "dodgy" countries have learned all their tricks from Britain, Pakistan for example pretty much kept EVERY 19th century law britain left em, making Homosexuality HIGHLY illegal for example, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa (who's Apartied system Britain should be ASHAMED of), the partition shambles (resided over by the ex-president of my soccer club) in india.
No, Blackleaf will never agree, but Britain is no angel, but when you consider Britain was brought back from Socialist Oblivion in the early 80's by that old colonialist Racist anti-working class figure that was Thatcher, and now everyone seems to want top be like her...Tony Blair for example..it's not suprising they STILL arnt a whole lot better.
fair enough, the only thing I find interesting is France's role in this anyway. People have drawn parallel's with the Lebanon to Vietnam, now in way they are right you know?.
Both being former colonies of France, both being in a whole heap of trouble since cutting off (literally) relations with their colonial masters.
My whole point was that Britain was different to France in many ways, they still are, France believed in a different kind of empire, an empire without borders making it one big world-wide "France", where as Britain's was more Romanesque, in that local viceroy's had most of the rule, but it was also realised that that rule could only be achived with the consent of the ruled.
And in the end, for a number of differing reasons, Britain decided to "let them go", perhaps because it knew it couldnt keep them, but also perhaps because it was the right thing to do, certainly while fighting communist insurgence in Malaya, Britain never tried to bamboozal America into fighting it's colonial wars in the cover of anti-communism.
But really, yes you are right, a lot of "dodgy" countries have learned all their tricks from Britain, Pakistan for example pretty much kept EVERY 19th century law britain left em, making Homosexuality HIGHLY illegal for example, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa (who's Apartied system Britain should be ASHAMED of), the partition shambles (resided over by the ex-president of my soccer club) in india.
No, Blackleaf will never agree, but Britain is no angel, but when you consider Britain was brought back from Socialist Oblivion in the early 80's by that old colonialist Racist anti-working class figure that was Thatcher, and now everyone seems to want top be like her...Tony Blair for example..it's not suprising they STILL arnt a whole lot better.
