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Funny how people bring their own arguments to the table and try to foist them on others in order to argue them.

Khannie hates Britannia and what she did to India.

Sam_ loves what Britannia did to America.

Sam has shown facts on a correlation showing prosperity and freedom today being more prevalent in ex-British colonies than in ex-French or other colonies. Sam knows this does not imply causation but finds it an interesting coincidence that neither France nor its ex-colonies are leaders in freedom and prosperity, and that our allies today are primarily Anglo-related.....and our world trouble spots generally don't share a common Anglicizing? historical influence.

Non of this is conflicting. Anyone can reasonably see that all these simple points are not in conflict.

You guys can go away hating Britain/Israel/Jordan, and I can go away hating France/Lebanon/Syria.

Everybody gets to hate somebody! Cheers!

No one hates anyone today for events of the past dude. You are drinking the kool aid. But to compare the British Empire to a benevolent force which improved the lives of Indians you got to be on crack. Your combining a general ignorance of history with your own personal prejudices to arrive at idiotic conclusions. I'm sure in your nutty world even Osama Rubbish-bin Ladens Islamic Khalifa is a great idea as long as people learn to drive on the right side of the road.

Empires are vehicles of domination, subjugation and oppression and nothing else. Thats why the Indians, Americans destroyed the British Empire. Thats why the whole world is slowly coming together to ensure that the world isnt confronted with an Islamic empire.

"Sam has shown facts on a correlation showing prosperity and freedom.............."

Its got no "correlation" and most definitely got nothing to do with prosperity or freedom. Its only a clever way to contrive and arrange some figures to make some pathetic point about the benevolence of the Raj.....while skillfully overlooking the Bengal famines, slave trade indentured labour and the regular pillage and rape.

One more important fact your little piece of tripe overlooked was that French colonies were far more poorer to begin with and had far less natural resources then what the British colonies had. British Empire itself was far less richer then the French but at least the French Empire has nothing parallel to the Bengal famines. Not even close.