re: #227 John Hughes

Mentioning Kenya and Aden and forgetting the Arclight strikes that killed perhaps a million Cambodians because the US wasn’t winning fast enough in neighbouring Vietnam and the evening teevee news shows were starting to ask awkward questions.

When you’re Top Dog you push things like that under the carpet with lots of Rah! Rah! and propaganda about how you’re the Good Guys and the swarthy Other is sneaky and evil for objecting to you invading their countries and bossing them around. We had Kipling, you had John Wayne. We had Rhodes, you’ve (still) got Bolton and the Afghanistan dead-enders. Welcome to Empire.