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Originally posted by enlightenment06
take up the white man's burden?
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Actually by quoting the Kipling poem you have hit on an interesting deabte in the UK.
With the war in Iraq just starting, their were comments made in Parliment that the US was finally "taking up the white man's burden" with reference to the Imperialism and responsibility that it implied in the 19th century context.
Now some could see this an endorsement of the US policy in the middle east..... or some could see this a sarcastic commentary on the US policy in the middle east.