Kind of like how communism has never been done right? Or how Mussolini made the busses run on time? Or like how the British East India Company united a subcontinent? I suppose imperialism is great as long as you’re doing the conquering - and winning. The whole idea stinks of tyranny to me.
Communism never has been done right, because that is an oxymoron. The others aren’t.
Musso did make things run on time, and John Company did unite a subcontinent. Whether those things were worth the cost is of course another question entirely.
BTW, if anybody knows of a truly unbiased take on the cost/benefit ratio of the British conquest of India, I’d love to read one. The pre-independence British analyses tend to claim it was mostly benefit, while the post-independence leftist British and Indian ones claim it was all just rape and pillage.
Seems to me the truth is somewhere in between, but you can’t get at the truth from someone just out to find ammo for a pre-determined position.
Personally, I suspect India at the moment is a good bit ahead of where it would be had there not been a conquest, while Pakistan is not.