US-Panama Crisis

"Why was it difficult for a superpower country to take on a small Latin American dictatorship? Why did US coercive measures short of intervention fail to oust him?"

Spanish - American War {Cuba)

"U.S. interest in purchasing Cuba had begun long before 1898. Following the Ten Years War, American sugar interests bought up large tracts of land in Cuba. Alterations in the U.S. sugar tariff favoring home-grown beet sugar helped foment the rekindling of revolutionary fervor in 1895. By that time the U.S. had more than $50 million invested in Cuba and annual trade, mostly in sugar, was worth twice that much. Fervor for war had been growing in the United States, despite President Grover Cleveland's proclamation of neutrality on June 12, 1895"

The 1st Vietnam - US Philippine War

"It is ironic that it has taken half a century and the remarkably similar situation in Indochina to re-focus attention on the Philippine struggle for national liberation against the forces of American imperial aggression"

Amazing what such a young nation of only 236 years of age has done - trying to emulate the "Old World" then?

So when your standards fail, blame the "Old World" for influencing your standards? How infantile!

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........how were they doing when their overlords were busy beating and raping their women with bottles and castrating their men with pliers? Is what followed worse or simply a continuation of the standards you taught them?

I saw a documentary about the Mau Mau revolt on TV some time ago.

IIRC, in a lot of ways it was a tribal conflict. The Mau Mau "revolted against British rule" but also massacred and terrorised other tribal groups. In return, the security forces, which were mainly Kenyan locals with British officers and in some cases local self defence militias, committed a lot of "payback" on those suspected of being a Mau Mau or a sympathiser.

There is no point in ignoring one side's violent actions because they are "patriotic revolutionaries" and pointing the finger at the other side because they are "colonialists".

Violence begets violence.

T.A.

If people want to be critical about colonialisation and exploitation then I would expect them to at least mention the person who used "his" colony as his personal money box.

King Leopold II of Belgium

But generally speaking areas under British rule were mostly better off that not.

Yep, The Whole Of The Brittish Empire and England itself was/is Idyllic, as a Midsomer Village/Town, without The Murders.

he a he a he

Where's Barnaby?

PROFessor SARCASM says: Every Little Breeze seems to Whisper: Come Back Brits! Please!

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

How much resources, e.g. labour and minerals did you steal from them? Did you even attempt to pay market rate? Did you even attempt to find the owner to pay them?

What rubbish have you been reading?

Not one sided claptrap. Did you go forth to "convert" them, an utterly detestable act, or did you go forth to turn a profit by any means? If the East India Company is any indication, I would say profit.

Maybe it would be easier for you to think of the Spanish and their colonialism for a moment. Perhaps there you have heard both sides of the story. Were the reasons they went any different?

Is what followed worse or simply a continuation of the standards you taught them?

That is manifestly untrue and you know it.

I suspect it is true. A little tribal warfare under their pre-British rules isn't the same as the cold efficiency of the Red Coats. I think you taught modern warfare and guerrilla conflicts to them. Yes, efficiency in war.

Oh wait. You define success as ₤₤₤. Is that the measure of the money changer at the temple?

When we had an Empire the world was a better place. You might not like that, and you probably won't, tough, but it was. Yes, and we didn't always behave in the best way that we could have, we all know that and accept it. But your anti British rant is a bit unusual for you. So I will put it down to an excess of New year imbibing.

Here in the USA, we unfortunately succeeded in converting the natives. They gave up. In many ways they and we are much worse off for it. In some limited other ways they are better off. Now they are the professors writing the history books. Because of this the books aren't myopic one sided accounts of guts, glory and white man's burden. They tell the truth about the horrific repression that colonialism imposes on the natives. Something likely lacking in the British school system. They tell the truth about the theft of resources, the destruction of nature and all the other things the colonizer sucks out of the land and people for the profit motive.

If you want an example today, look at Tibet.

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If you want an example today, look at Tibet.

An even better example is Iraq. Still there aren't you & after 21 years from the initial invasion......

...just what is keeping you there...

...Hmmnnn, could it be to protect your oil companies & maintaining consumption by your big gas guzzling vehicles!

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Here in the USA, we unfortunately succeeded in converting the natives. They gave up. In many ways they and we are much worse off for it. In some limited other ways they are better off. Now they are the professors writing the history books. Because of this the books aren't myopic one sided accounts of guts, glory and white man's burden. They tell the truth about the horrific repression that colonialism imposes on the natives. Something likely lacking in the British school system. They tell the truth about the theft of resources, the destruction of nature and all the other things the colonizer sucks out of the land and people for the profit motive.

If you want an example today, look at Tibet.



While we may be dependent sovereigns I am a proud member of the OSAGE NATION

as well as a US citizen. You need look no farther than the url link for my account.

Many tribe's have survived, those that take the least from the fed are doing

the best.

And I would not mind being a colonial as well as long as I have to pay no new

tax's and am not expected to pay attention to the royal family :)

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I suspect it is true. A little tribal warfare under their pre-British rules isn't the same as the cold efficiency of the Red Coats.

Gary sometimes you are a Grand Master of the understatement.

From what I've read some of these "little tribal wars" were almost genocidal and those that weren't killed immediately were tortured to death later, kept as slaves or sold off for use on cotton plantations.

Not all Africans were peaceful cattle herders. Conquest was just as much a part of life in Africa before the colonial powers arrived as it was afterwards.

T.A.

Who in 1812 were friends of the native Americans and who were not?

Who in 1812 were friends of the native Americans and who were not?

any one born in a county is a native, but if you mean Indians

than not vary many manifest destiny meant that you could do a lot that

would normally be called bad and call it good with the wight population

cheering like all though's nice blanket's the cherokee got, shame that they came

from smallpox patients?

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Who in 1812 were friends of the native Americans and who were not?

any one born in a county is a native, but if you mean Indians

than not vary many manifest destiny meant that you could do a lot that

would normally be called bad and call it good with the wight population

cheering like all though's nice blanket's the cherokee got, shame that they came

from smallpox patients?

Sums it up rather nicely. Or the bias of the authors of your textbooks is showing.

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Who in 1812 were friends of the native Americans and who were not?

Would this be the former friends of the slaves in the mid 1770s? Promises of freedom were given to the slaves (souce) if they took up arms for the Brits, however when the Brits lost that war, some of their white loyalists fled with their slaves to, amongst other places, Turks and Caicos (source), where they could try to start anew.

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I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...

Don't forget the Chinese....

Chinese in America

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