I know you don't mean that really, Kyric, because if you honestly had an opinion that was the same as Gash's statement, I would be forced to shun you.
Well, it's not like we encounter each other much anyways, but still such an opinion is arrogant. Every major civilisation for millenia inevitibly turns its' powers to conquest and the ruling of others, and I hope that America will be the first to shun that road and try and be fair to the other nations of the world. America is slowly starting to show signs of going down the dark road (Brazil, Panama, Chilie, and Vietnam are just a few examples of places they ruined for profit) but I hope perhaps they can bounce back.
That's the purpose the UN serves, somewhere the government can look up to for rulings and decisions, to keep them from running roughshod over each other. Yet whenenver America chooses to ignore their decisions or rules, should they be unfavourable to them, it merely weakens the UN's position and a higher power to help keep the world safe from the countries it contains.
Then the dark road must be the popular hang-out, because compared to how many nations Britian, Japan, Russia, France, and Germany @#$%ed up in recent time because they don't want their precious empires crumbling, or they want to blame a particular race of people for something that was inevitable, etc., the USA is the best, brightest nation in the world.
So we're going to compare what the United States has done in the last fifty years to what the rest of the world did in the hundreds before?
Dare I point out that most of those other nations scarcely existed in the form they do today when committing said acts -- certainly not in a governmental sense, anyway? No, I dare not.
I'm talking about within the last 50 years for all the other nations as well. Do you know how many Colonial Possesion wars Britian has fought in to keep India, Indonesia, Bosnia, etc. There was a website that actually listed moderate detials of each individual war. There were over 25 of them. That's 20 more that what we have fought in, at least.
What does that have to do with the UN? Does that mean they have to invade Argentina now? And if you watched the news the baby died because the operation failed to remove the additional (and not living) head.
It had nothing to do with the UN. Although Argentina should be invaded, and so should Brazil, and Colombia, and Venezuela. Heck, everyone should be invaded except Mexico, and Cuba.
Yes Kraken, and the age of British Imperialism is long over. It's an inept comparison for two reasons.
a) The last 50 years have seen the winding down of British Colonialism. It was, more than anything, a case of an empire gradually unraveling, not actively involving itself in the affairs more nations. In effect, the damage had already been done by hundreds of years of imperialist sentiment.
b) I very well might be mistaken, but name one major "colonial possession" conflict after the Suez Crisis ended the age of the British Empire.
