Re: [OT] Ex-colonies was: Liberals

It is very unfortunite that your comment makes it
sound like the Pacistani/arab/muslim lived in peace with the
Indian/hindus down the block and that ONLY the advent
of the colonial era caused friction.   The truth is 
that the colonials caused the massive tribal wars to 
be reduced to a minimum and proved a system of laws
that these promptly abandoned so that they could go
back to the tribal traditions of murder and slavery.

I think the term "massive" in tribal wars is a bit of
a misnomer. Yes the tribal strife is back but, given
the colonial practice of using a minorities as the police
force  and as troops certainly didn't help. Further the 
advent of western weapons and military practices really 
has brought the old tribal wars a new and far deadlier 
dimension. As for tribal traditions of murder and slavery
we don't have to look at the former European colonies,
there are a few spots in Europe that come to mind as
meeting those same conditions.

The point being this, when you strip away all the high
sounding words war is at it base  theft. You are ether
trying to steal by force of arms or prevent that theft by 
those same arms. Humans bolt on the suitable 
ideology later to help them sleep at night.