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When did France and the UK become the good guys? *Smiles* Both were colonial imperialist powers when America was still getting its act together.
The UK can take perverse pleasure in the fact that anything bad that a nation can do has been done by them, often better than anyone else. Organized Drug trade anyone? Britain opened the Chinese market using Opium grown in I believe India. Speaking of India, Britain dominated the subcontinent for 150 years by playing local governments off one another. Britain held a huge percentage of the world under its economic thumb by restricting how trade flowed between itself and its colonies and itself and everyone else.
I make no claims that either government is evil, but both (I know I didn't include an french examples but I know they exist, think Vietnam) have done questionable actions in the past, and will probably do so again in the future. I admit freely that America has done much of the same, but they are not unique, they are simply the largest and most noticable offender.
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