Reply #10: I was just pointing out where the idea of empire or colonies could come from. [View All]

[bemildred]

I wasn't offering to debate about the dismantling of the settlements, or why one ought to do it, or any of that stuff; that is a much messier subject, and leads to all sorts of convoluted arguments about how many states to have and whether you can really have "separate but equal" and so on. Not a pleasant prospect, especially when you have seen the arguments many times already.