What exactly is this discussion about anyway?
Britain did not leave its colonies looking like Mordor: that's not really something we should be obliged to be thankful for.
The natives were oppressed by their colonial overlords: they would have been oppressed by native overlords otherwise.
It all seems like a lot of puffery to me.
Yeah, but now they are free to be oppressed!
"Put 'em in blue coats, put 'em in red coats, the bastards will run all the same!"
"The English are a strange people....They came here in the morning, looked at the wall, walked over it, killed the garrison and returned to breakfast. What can withstand them?"
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