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From: myers@uwvax.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
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Subject: Re: Re: 3rd world savages
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Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 23:47:27 EST
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> Good for you, putting him in his place.
> 
> Nevertheless, and not wanting to minimize the sufferings of your family, you 
> can't deny that, while the British did maintain their hold over India by
> occasionally brutal (dare I say thuggish?) means, the real massacres, I
> mean the hundreds-of-thousands-killed massacres, took place between
> Indians, or Indians and Pakistanis, *after* the British left. Say what
> you like about imperialists, they do tend to keep the natives from each
> others' throats.

Hmm.  Yes, I suppose that external aggression tends to unite a country's
people, as evidenced by the recent elections in Nicaragua, which have been
conclusively shown to have been fair (from all I have read, e.g. the New York
Times).

An example of "natives" being at each other's throat is, of course, the battle
of blue and grey in the US Civil War.  I must admit that although I am an
avowed enemy of the militarism in today's societies, I am fascinated by the
strategic and tactical aspects of war, especially the Civil War.
Goddam 1st world savages and their "civilized" wars!

Love / Hate relationship I suppose...

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