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It was not my intention in anyway to engage in historical debate - one cannot intelligently do so on an internet forum. My post is full of holes and, condensed as it is, openly contradicts itself. My main points are clear though:
Freedom, whatever you conceive to be, is costly, and the cost falls in the first place on those fighting for it.
I don't believe in military intervention to "build nations" (others will, they could easily be right and I could easily be wrong).
But naked hypocrisy is naked hyprocrisy however you dress it up. Great Britian has subjugated many nations at the point of a gun and usually for nothing more important than greed, money and power.
Thank you for the historical references, I will surely follow them up. Here's one for you which I enjoyed..."The Bad Popes" by ER Chamberlin. (Greed, Money & Power...and the consequences thereof)
Take it easy
PS I'll get my coat now. Said what I wanted to say.