re: #367 b_sharp

The British did what powerful technologically advanced societies did. It is a mistake to evaluate their actions in the past according to modern moral standards because those standards did not exist at that time.

We’ve come a long way since that time and we should celebrate our capability to recognize the errors of the past, but we should avoid condemning past cultures and their actions because they are not as enlightened as we moderns. We can evaluate them according to the standards of the time, however.

I think the point is, since when is being anti-imperialism anti-American? No one who lives in a nation born from an anti-imperialist war should be saying the stuff Huckabee was saying.