The Intercept
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Eric Liu : Erik Prince , founder of mercenary firm Blackwater, said U.S. should take over and run huge swaths of the globe.
Liu : Like previous enthusiasts of imperialism, Prince is blind to his own motivations and where they inevitably lead.
He says imperialists have always told themselves that they are subduing other lands to help their benighted inhabitants, this beneficence somehow always leads to mass death. Liu : Imperialists always seem to work this way, but sheer evil is what is evil.
Many of humanity’s worst ideas, ones we thought were long dead and buried, have risen from the grave and are now staggering about again.
Fascism? Maybe we could return to medicine based on the four humors, in which all human afflictions are due to imbalances in phlegm, blood, and yellow and black bile.
And why not give chattel slavery another shot?.
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