In Reply to: Irish Empire? posted by In Fairness on July 06, 2006 at 14:45:28:

Nope we get others to do the dirty work for us

Actually the whole business of stealing other countries resources is mainly done by the private sector nowadays via coroporations that most of quite happily work in, invest in and buy from !

Colonialism didnt die out during the 20th century it was merly privatised !