Canada and Afghanistan: Pro Development Rally?

[gsyh]

Meh, lately, walking through campus, I get so annoyed seeing anti-war posters that lumps Iraq and Afghanistan together, both had been very different countries with very different circumstances. I guess this ignorant lumping also carries a special flavour of bitterness for me both as someone who has read up on this situation before marching out

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[chvickers]

Actually, somebody did blink their eyes at brutalism back then.

Queen Victoria.

She was remarkably advanced for her time - learned Hindustani at 80 - but when you have a job that would force you to sign your own death warrant if necessary...

Apparently she spent the first 20 years of her reign paying off the debts of her father, who was one of the most brutal officers the British Army ever enjoyed. He was almost a million pounds (in 19th century money) in debt when he died in Victoria's infancy.

Hmmmm...

[gsyh]

...it was still beneath her reign that a lot of the brutalism happened, and she took pride in being the Empress of India...India which her country oppressed. She also signed the bill condemning homosexuality, the bill that sent Oscar Wilde to years of hard labour at the end of which he died shortly after.