Besides, aren't places the British empire once possessed especially messy today, in contrast to places where the French and Spanish empires once colonized? Israel/Palestine, Iraq, and Sudan are prime examples (even Lebanon nowadays is less unruly than them), though the British can always say that they were better than the Belgians in Congo and the Americans in Cambodia and that what looks like a British problem is actually an American problem, as erstwhile British possessions mainly fell into the US sphere of influence, while the French have managed to keep many of their former colonies in their sphere of influence. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>