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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
what I am saying is that the Iraqi leaders are no Ghandis.
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No. They're not. But more important, the Iraqi people are not Indians. Do you know why? Because of the British Raj in India. Contrary to leftist myths (propagated in part by the movie), the British weren't evil oppressors who completely fucked India. On the contrary, they gave her the English language, a Western legal system, a free market system, and an education system second to none though today accessed primarily by the upper classes. Paradoxically, India is today ascendant precisely because the British colonized it. There's a new wave of academia that recognizes that Empires and colonialism aren't all bad; in fact, world history is all about succeeding Empires, which transmitted many positive elements of diverse cultures. We are what we are today because Rome colonized Europe. More and more thoughtful people are realizing Western civilization is the world's only hope--a very un-PC idea until recently.