Britain should have conquered the world

[MikeH]

In fact it's held up as an example of how you can get better if you rid your country of a troublesome minority!

[C0ckney]

what are you talking about mike?

[Dauphin]

If you're going to commit genocide, make sure you get them all,

[C0ckney]

A case of good governance indeed, if you don't pay attention to the authoritarian repressive regime effectively crushing every form of opposition. If you don't pay attention to the genocidal frenzies Kagame unleashed upon the fleeing hutu's (among which - of course - many génocidaires but a lot of innocent people as well) but most importantly if you don't pay attention to the horrible role he played in the Congolese war of the nineties (and noughties as well - in fact the conflict is still going on, albeit in a more covert way).

the congo conflicts are very complicated and you can't talk about them only in terms of rwanda's involvement.

Kagame is an opportunist moneygrabbing powermongerer stealing whatever he can from other countries to fuel his economic expansion. While economic development is a commendable goal, it's not a good idea to wage war with your neighbour, overthrow its government and funding rebel groups in order to pillage and extort Congo's riches to boost said economic improvement.

so you're saying that rwanda's economic growth is solely the result of plundering the congo? that's a strange position to take.

also, are you saying that you are critical of the overthrow of mobutu?

Saying Rwanda is a case of good governance is nothing less than completely insane..

it's not just me who says it, but a host of world leaders, commentators and international organisations, have praised the country for its progress in areas such as economic development, healthcare, education and the provision of other basic services. the most cursory research on your part would tell you this.

as i have already said, there are still lots of problems, economic development and social cohesion have come at the cost of political freedom and free speech. however, when compared to many other places in africa, rwanda is doing well and there is a lot of hope for the future alongside some justified concerns.

[MikeH]

Germany's doing a lot better now than it was before Hitler took over.

GODWINNED! WOO!

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Only good British colony is New Zeland.

Everything else , and Canda is British only nominally, it really is a colony of USA.

Australia = self-organized British criminals > Britain...

South Africa = rape and pillage... not exactly great... the rest of the British colonies... India vs Pakistan... highest chance for WW3, Sudan , Iraq , Israel - purely British construction, second highest chance for WW3 ... Jews could have happily continued to live in the US, and controlled that country instead. That would have been a win-win scenario. Jews get a bigger country, and they can settle wherever they want, there are too few native-Americans to pose any real trouble... while the rest of the world does not have to worry about fundamentalist Arabs. All the other Americans would gladly accept to be ruled by a Jewish elite as they do now .

Burma or Mynamar
Uganda, Zimbabwe, Namibia... do we need to continue???

On a positive note, If Britain conquered the world, we would already be travelling to Alpha Centauri because there would be no Earth left to live on, after all the pillage and resource rape that the world would suffer as a consequence.

[BeBMan]

Germany's doing a lot better now than it was before Hitler took over.

Thank You, UK