Quote Originally Posted by rvg View Post
Similar <> the same. And making Britain a republic will not turn it into mini-USA.
That's true, Britain is better governed, 100% of the country is covered by professional Police and Fire Service.

There are many things about the US which are laudable but the failure to address the defecit and the current farcical election cycle are symptoms of design flaws. The model is not perfect.

I believe that "eminent aristocrats" were also sent to govern India. The subcontinent is still rejoicing from the experience.
See, that's funny, because in India the Middle Class speak English as a first language, they have English habits, fashions and manners. They also play cricket. Then there are the Indian railways...

Before you get the Sepoy Rebellion, it was a farce because the cartridges issued to Sepoys were waxed, not greased, the rumour that cow or pig grease was used was spread by malcontents.

India also follows British Parliamentary practice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_India

Don't try to tell me India would have been better off without the Raj - India would not exist without the Raj.

quote]Today. Not back then.[/quote]

If the UK was not a democracy in 1780 then neither was the US.

As I said, there's much or muchness is the timeline of "democratisation".

It's not a bitter pill at all. I feel absolutely no guilt about it. I was just stressing that *I* did not do it. Like I said earlier, it was a war of the worlds. Our world happened to prevail. It happened before, back when the Vikings settled in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. At that time *they* became the victims.
OK, so now you're really stretching it. The Vikings in Vinland starved to death, they weren't systematically wiped out.