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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 23/06/2013 7:18 PM, wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:50:21 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>>>
>> Just look around the world and see the countries that have been the most
>> successful..... the US, Canada, Australia, the better of the African and
>> Asian countries.
>
> The British Empire was certainly not all bad, better to have had that
> than some of the Portuguese/Spanish RC priestly invasions raping a
> country's wealth and keeping the natives poor, uneducated and
> pregnant.
>

The same can be said for most of the empires that have come and gone.
The Romans had their pros and cons, but they did bring laws, education
and an infrastructure.