Please. Why don't you just oversimplify the history of the colonial period so we can all jump in to lay blame for every socio-economic disparity of the third world at the feet of the Western world?Like the "western world" has any grounds to bitch about cultural exportation.
If you want to gloss over tribal and ethnic divisions that long preceeded Western colonization of some parts of the world (which has also long since passed into history) because it ostensbily absolves said nations and non-state actors of responsibility for their own actions and motivations in the present day.
Tell me that what's happening in Zimbabwe is the fault of Western colonization. Tell me that India and Pakistan are at each other's throats today because of British interests. Tell me that the internal divisions and seventy years of PRI rule in Mexico were because the US expanded into the the Southwest in response to Mexican aggression. Tell me that the genocide in Rwanda is directly correlated to Western intervention, when the world blames the West for not getting involved in the ethnic tribalism that fomented the crisis.
Pick up Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Dimond sometime. Blaming Eurocentric-policies and Western bias only carries the "poor third world victim" argument so far--to the point where it falls flat on its face. And it certainly doesn't whitewash the threat to Western Civilization posed by Islamist movements.




, Nasser`s Young Egypt movement, the Social Nationalist Party of Syria founded by Anton Sa`ada, and the Ba`ath Party of Iraq. One of the main leaders of the 1941 pro-Nazi coup in Iraq was Khairallah Tulfah, the uncle and guardian of Saddam Hussein. When Saddam failed in his attempt to assassinate the Iraqi leader Abdel Karim Qassim in 1959, he fled to Egypt where he was given protection by Grand Mufti- protégé Nasser and ODESSA-connected former Nazis. The rest, as they say, is history.

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