Originally posted by FifthColumn
You mean like the way Germany and Japan prospered after the US bombed them down to the ground?
No, I mean like Cuba and Puerto Rico continued to be third world countries after being ruled like US colonies for over 50 years.
Germany and Japan were already highly developed first world countries long before America, Britain and Russia bombed them to bits. The only thing America did was replace their authoritarian political structures by democratic ones and lend them money so that they could rebuild their economy themselves.
America's track record regarding economic development among its third world colonies is an abysmal failure.
CUBA, PUERTO RICO, LIBERIA, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN... you name it.
So again:
Those who demand economic development from others have a MORAL OBLIGATION to be able to create it in their own colonies.