>>>Should we rebuild the empire to bring security and
>>>safety to millions of people suffering oppression and
>>>curruption by governemnts no in control of former
>>>British colonies?
>>> I think it would be a good move any other ideas?
>>
>>Being policeman of the world is no longer a good
>>thing. Look at Iraq and Afghanistan.
>
>But if we had not left iraq in the first place would
>this have been a problem? we created the current
>climate in that country after mesopatamia fell under
>British un offical empire. Surely we have a moral duty
>to try to right the situation. I feel the main
>problems we encounter in that particular country are
>as a result of the American involvment. America has
>alienated its self from the rest of the world because
>of its insular views, where we in this country have
>years of pratical hands experience to effectly deal
>with world policing. Also is Britain not known for its
>sense of fair play? I rencently spoke to a leading
>indian who comes from a large polictical and military
>family in india. To my surprise i was informed that a
>large majority of indians actually wish the British
>had never left.
I would say that the UK has no particular moral obligation to undertake nation building, the problem with nation building by and large is that in many case it is to close to the whole "white mans burden" idea, and even thou it may have the best of intentions at times, it often ends up causing problems.
While the United States has made a number of mistakes in Iraq regardless of that or the nation involved things were not going to go well in Iraq, while I am sure most of the Iraqis are glad to see Saddam Hussein gone, a large percentage if not most of the Iraqis populace and most of the factions with power bases do not want Iraq occupied or controlled by any outside force, to be exact many of them have a vested interest in seeing that the US every one else pulls out of the region
