Re: Re: An Empire in denial

2003-03-24 Thread k hanly
What hopelessly wordy propogandists the old Belgians were. Such waste of air time and displacement of ads is hopelessly inefficient. Why not Operation Congo Freedom? Direct mass appeal. But as e e cummings put it when freedom is a breakfast food being pays the rent of seem. Well maybe that is not

Re: An Empire in denial

2003-03-24 Thread Carl Remick
From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chronicle of Higher Education, March 28, 2003 America: an Empire in Denial By NIALL FERGUSON ... Was the British empire a good or bad thing? It is nowadays quite conventional to think that, on balance, it was a bad thing. ... [Score one for conven

An Empire in denial

2003-03-24 Thread Louis Proyect
Chronicle of Higher Education, March 28, 2003 America: an Empire in Denial By NIALL FERGUSON Once there was an empire that governed roughly a quarter of the world's population, covered about the same proportion of the Earth's land surface, and dominated nearly all its oceans. The Brit