Writing for The Atlantic, Stratfor's Robert D. Kaplan speaks up for the idea of imperialism. I've been wondering when someone would take the non-PC side of the argument.
It is hard to argue that the lives of most people in Africa are better off than they were when nearly the entire place was an annex of Europe. The same could be said for the former colonies in Asia.
If colonial people were not self-governing then, most of their descendants are not self-governing today. They have, however, exchanged foreign overlords for home-grown overlords who are typically, if not always, more corrupt and brutal and less competent than the Europeans they replaced.
Latin America is perhaps one region where one could argue colonialism was worse than what followed. Spaniards were looters on a grand scale and practitioners of cultural genocide.
An objective observer would have to conclude that conditions in most former colonies are no better, and often worse, than they were under imperialism.
