> We imagine that our rule was a net positive for the countries we occupied Just adding to your excellent points: The words net positive are used to justify al

> We imagine that our rule was a net positive for the countries we occupied Just adding to your excellent points: The words net positive are used to justify almost every attrocity in history, including Hitler, Stalin, Mao ... torture by the US government (not comparable to those three but the same rationale) ... etc. etc. You have to break a few eggs to make an omlette, as they say.