[Cronos]

Is Congo better off today? Is he interested in comparisons?

You're comparing barbarity to barbarity, however you're forgetting one thing -- a civilised nation like Belgium should not have done that. What Hitler did was barbaric, but Timur-e-Lang did worse a few centuries earlier, yet we consider Hitler worse because he did it with a civilised nation. When you adopt civilisation and high culture, you cannot act like the barbarians.

[Revolting cat!]

According to the Communist propagandists like Mr Hochschild entire history of the contemptible Western Civilization consists of barbarity against the noble natives. And that’s the entire point.