Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
No approach goes smoothly, ever.

Giving them independance didnt go smoothly either, it's just that it wasnt us who took the strain, we just up and left the mess for someone else to sort out. Had we stayed, I think we could have made something out of it. All I hear out of this free africa is war, disease, famine, and that almost everyone who means to do good in africa dont have the power to do anything beyond token efforts.
In other words, the very same conditions that existed during occupation.

The only time we find them relatively absent is prior to European involvement.

Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
I wouldn't call Algeria a transition, the French army is notoriously brutal, always has been.
And yet France has one of the better records in terms of its colonial exploits. If they couldn't do what Greyblades is suggesting, I doubt any other colonial power could.