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Originally Posted by rogueteens
look in the history books and you'll see that america wasn't a big prize to the empire, it was more interested in the east - america was not seen as being worth getting in too much of a spat with the French.
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None of that(if even true) changes the fact that America became a much
better functioning country after kicking out the Brits.
In fact America became so much better operating that it emerged as the
new economic and military power in the world.
The nations that were not able to kick the Brits out at that time lagged far
behind the advancements of the US. The longer the Brits stayed in a nation
the further behind the nation got when compared to nations that overthrew the
empire in earlier times.
Get over yourselves.
You promised gold and grain but delivered nothing but suffering and pain.
The Brits left a fucking mess in Zimbabwe with it's racist allocation of farm land
to whites. Then proceeded to embark on a bitter campaign of economic destruction
upon the liberated nation. With calls to the western world to impose harsh sanctions
with the purpose of starving Africans. The slander of Mugabe continues as the
Brits are bitter to the end about their defeat.
Accusing Mugabe of "taking land" from whites when in fact it is the Brits that
reneged on their agreement to compensate white farmers for the land that was
already agreed to be turned over and voluntary delayed for a decade to further
assist the transition of white farmers at the expense of starving Africans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe#Land_reform
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Land reform
Main article: Land reform in Zimbabwe
When Zimbabwe gained independence, 46.5% of the country's arable land was owned by around 6,000 commercial farmers[44] and white farmers, who made up less than 1% of the population, owned 70% of the best farming land.[45] Mugabe accepted a "willing buyer, willing seller" plan as part of the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979, among other concessions to the white minority.[46] As part of this agreement, land redistribution was blocked for a period of 10 years.[47]
In 1997, the new British government led by Tony Blair unilaterally stopped funding the "willing buyer, willing seller" land reform programme on the basis that the initial £44 million allocated under the Thatcher government was used to purchase land for members of the ruling elite rather than landless peasants. Furthermore, Britain's ruling Labour Party felt no obligation to continue paying white farmers compensation, or in minister Clare Short's words, "I should make it clear that we do not accept that Britain has a special responsibility to meet the costs of land purchase in Zimbabwe. We are a new Government from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish and as you know we were colonised not colonisers".[48]
Some commentators, such as Matthew Sweet in The Independent, hold Cecil Rhodes ultimately responsible:
... It was Cecil Rhodes who originated the racist 'land grabs' to which Zimbabwe's current miseries can ultimately be traced. It was Rhodes who in 1887 told the House Of Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa that 'the native is to be treated as a child and denied the franchise. We must adopt a system of despotism in our relations with the barbarians of Southern Africa'.[49]
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The message from the rest of the world to the Brits is clear :
Stay the fuck out!
You manage a nation with racism, hatred and arrogance and launch bitter campaigns
of lies and distortions when you are defeated and run out of town.
You leave town with a "scorched earth withdrawal" in hopes of punishing the
liberated people who dare to rise to end their never ending suffering under
British tyranny.
Cliff Notes : Links pulled!
