text: skyofblue,
  
    Lots of guilt-ridden folks here trying to avoid their guilt or at least take the egregious edge off it.
    British imperialism was all about racism, invasions, occupations, conquests, economic exploitation, land, land, land. It was total war. There were no "good intentions".
    They use to say when they were destroying another nation to add to their empire that they were bringing Christianity and civilization to heathen savages. Americans in Vietnam said they had to "destroy the Vietnamese village to save it."
     No way. Imperialist conquest is total war. No good intentions for the people destroyed and killed, Some three million in Southeast Asia.
     When Americans were committing genocide on the American Indians, they also talked about Christianity and civilization.
     You might say their intentions were good for the settlers on the Indian lands and those killing their buffalo and passing through to California. But for the Indians themselves, no good intentions.