all colonies should be run like the Belgian Congo
I gotta jump in here. As everyone knows, I'm certainly no anglophile, but I am a big Confederate sympathizer. I'd only like to point out what a paradox it would have been, and the height of hypocrisy, if the English (British, Limey, whatever the you like to call yourselves) had recognized the CSA, given that the CSA rebelled against my country for the same reasons that my country rebelled against the British Empire. But, from the point of view of an English Imperialist, it makes since to recognize the CSA, since the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Well, except that they aren't really the "enemy of my enemy" and all that, are they? The brits, by way of their culture and language, still very much rule the world. Like it or not. Take a look, with the exception of Kennedy, all our presidents were WASPs. (yeah, we can argue about Eisenhower and Van Buren)
Not sure how you'd come up with "humanitarian" though. Even if it's sardonism, it's a bit non-sequitur.
