[I am Richard Brandon]

I have traveled in India, visited the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar and stayed in the house of one of the leading anti-British agitators prior to the British departure. Nowhere did I encounter anti-British sentiment although there may well be some residual sentiment.

As for the Chinese, I am sure that they will go to war with someone - ANYONE -in the near future. The internal pressures are too great. The leaders NEED a war.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Nowhere did I encounter anti-British sentiment although there may well be some residual sentiment. As for the Chinese, I am sure that they will go to war with

A neighbor from New Zealand who worked in Nepal once told me that after the British withdrew from India, they took a survey to see how the Indian people felt about the Empire's departure.

It turned out that some 80% of Indians never even realized the British were there.

[Zhang Fei]

[As for the Chinese, I am sure that they will go to war with someone - ANYONE -in the near future. The internal pressures are too great. The leaders NEED a war.]

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The lessons of history are obviously long forgotten. I blame Barbara Tuchman’s cockamamie book about mobilization schedules causing WWI. Kings go to war not because they need to, but because they want to. What they’re after is to make a name for themselves that will stand the test of time. By a country mile, the most famous Greek is Alexander, just as the most famous Roman is Caesar. That’s no accident. For better or for worse, conquerors will always have a special place in the history books. War is like a large scale hunt in which the guy who organized it and brought home a lot of trophies puts his name in neon lights for posterity.

Heck, even the losers become famous in ways nobody expected. Without his disastrous loss at Carrhae, just how well-known would the richest man in Rome, Crassus, be?