On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> Yoshie:
>
>
> No, he's just honest. Ideas and sentiments like his, in favor of
> colonialism and imperialism, were once quite common* among Western
>
> [WS:] Oh absolutely. I honestly thing that all this talk about
> imperialism
> is either cover up for the authoritarianism, corruption and
> ineptitude of
> Third World governments, or silly contumacy of blasé Western
> intellectuals
> who say it to shock the public.
So all that stuff about the Brits cutting the legs off Kenyans who weren't working hard enough and the U.S. killing three million Indochinese - all that's just in the spirit of epater la bourgeoisie?
Doug