Quote Originally Posted by KeithD View Post
Tens of thousands died because of the way we treated others. Back then we did things on a larger scale than what ISIS, the American 'founders', Portuguese, French, Spanish, etc, did around the world. Only the Nazi's caused bigger issues.
Examples please - So our former colonies were better off than they would have been under ISIS but worse than if run by the Nazis ?

We mainly provided positives getting a lot of them out of the stone age. Law, language, security, trade, transport, education etc

On independence the colonies were left with a proper economic, political and social infrastructure which many of them subsequently screwed up. Just compare prosperous stable Malaysia with basket case Zimbabwe