Originally Posted by Plechazunga

But that's what I'm saying, even someone who thinks the Empire was largely good will admit that there were times when we acted wrongly. (I'm talking about reasonable people here, it doesn't apply to Kilroy). The line in Blackadder about how being in the army was fun when our enemies were armed with sharpened mangos and guava halves, and at the end of battles instead of taking prisoners we just made an enormous fruit salad, will have raised a laugh of recognition across the country.

For my argument to hold, the scores don't need to be equal, we just need to have let a few in from time to time.