In his weekly syndicated column Mark Steyn gives a preview of his excellent book "After America" in discussing the riots in London. Steyn closes with this warning,
'Within living memory, the city in flames on our TV screens every night governed a fifth of the Earth's surface and a quarter of its population. When you're imperialists on that scale, there are bound to be a few mishaps along the way. But nothing the British Empire did to its subject peoples has been as total and catastrophic as what a post-great Britain did to its own."
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