re: History
France wanted its colonies to adopt universal values of human rights, democracy, etc...but it failed.
Instead, in Africa for instance, the type of society that came after decolonization, was also of European origin, but it was fascism.
I wonder how long it's going to take to see if the US can succeed where the others have failed.
And iraq...is Iraq. With it's ancient culture and also its remembrance of past colonial era.
Raoul