Reply #4: Read some history. Even wikipedia works in this instance. [View All]

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Ever heard the expression the sun never sets on the British empire well at one time it was true.

British colonies extended as far as Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, and India. Part of the history of violence in the modern world is many parts of the world is due to British drawing lines that looked nice on a map and calling that a country.

Iraq for example never would have emerged a nation is the British didn't make them one. Sunni, Shia, Kurds all pushed together into one country. No more likely without British intervention Iraq never would have existed. Kurds would be part of turkey or some larger Kurdistan nation, the Sunni and Shia portions of the country would have been part of a larger Saudia Arabia and Iran.

Where they didn't redraw maps they deprived a populace of self rule for hundreds of years, and then packed up their toys and went home. In places like the African colonies the bloodshed and violence that followed as a result of this abrupt power vacuum will take hundreds of years to overcome.