Fair point: Europe and its descendants don't have anything like a monopoly on imperialism (and China in particular has that history going back a long, long time

Fair point: Europe and its descendants don't have anything like a monopoly on imperialism (and China in particular has that history going back a long, long time). I'm presumably focused on European imperialism because it's my heritage, and because Europe's age of imperial expansion has played a particularly widespread role in world history for the past few centuries. And also, because it's the one involved in the conflict in question here. It's probably worth considering how these attitudes evolve over time, too. I'd guess that a hundred years ago, the U.S. wouldn't have done much hand wringing in this case, either.