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I'm not really talking about a grand weighing-up of rights and wrongs though, Frosty. Even those who think, say, the Empire was broadly a Good Thing for all concerned must admit that some Bad Things were done too. All I'm saying is, if you're going to feel pride about the one, it only makes sense to feel shame about the other.
For instance, most of us feel some shame about Britain's current entanglement in Iraq, but pride at our work in Sierra Leone. Well if that's so for current events, why should it not be so for history?
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