The colonial precedent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1335961,00.html
The growing brutality and deception of the Iraq war mirrors Britain's
recent imperial history
Mark Curtis
Tuesday October 26, 2004
The Guardian
The redeployment of British forces in Iraq to support a US assault on
Falluja marks another stage in a creeping return to the colonial era,
when popular revolts against occupation were routinely suppressed by
overwhelming force. These past episodes, revealed in declassified
British government files, provide numerous parallels with Iraq, and
suggest a pattern of future blunders and atrocities. Those in Britain
who like to regard more recent military interventions as humanitarian
might dwell on those parallels as the latest phase of the Iraq war
unfolds.
Mark Curtis
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