Quote Originally Posted by Bob's World View Post
To provide some supporting fires to one of Dayuhan's points:

FDR was absolutely against colonialism (though much of that was his hate of the way it served to exclude the US from participating in rich markets. During WWII FDR met with the leaders of Tunisia, Morocco, etc and sold "democracy" and "self-determination" to an audience buying "liberty" while Churchill sat there and stewed (no booze at the dinner may have been his chief complaint). FDR also went in great detail about the value of doing business with the US...
As they say... with friends like some US Presidents who needs enemies? ... and Israel is about to find that out too.

Note: before there is too much sulking around here I for one am talking about the weaknesses and failures of certain US Presidents. Most countries (who elect heads of state) have a tendency to elect ego driven narcissistic presidents who have massively over-inflated opinions of their own ability. The trouble with the US is that the scope for creating devastation being the head of state of a super power that much bigger and more assured.

So, when colonialism expired at the end of WWII as we were calling for that to happen; there were also long suppressed populaces newly empowered by a modern info age standing up and making the cost exceed the benefit of such arrangements.
1945 the modern info age?

Colonialism didn't expire... it was pushed.