You must be one of those that believes in all of those conspiracy theories or you are cynical. You no doubt have heard of The White Man's Burden. Simply put that means we have a duty to the uneducated, the socially backward and the people who live in the third world that cannot properly function. And that is what we did when we colonized them, we helped them and got the people proper medical care, schools, clean water and a proper judicial system. Then we throwout the baby with the bath water when we gave them their independence.