[sarasmom]

LOL!
Most of the brass I worked for and respected, thought Hollywood's fictional character "John Wayne" was a candy @ssed mommies boy... But the Brits have never been known for their deftness in dealing with foreign "cultural affairs" either... LOL!

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Gordon, Mahdi Fuzzy Wuzzies, Khartoum et al, just one case in point, not a good batting average dealing with the locals.

In the Boer War, the Brits instituted the first concentration camps, where they rounded up and starved Boer women and children to death in attempting to break the will of the Boer fighting men.

Now General, shall we move on next to the despicable atrocities your country committed in India?