Colonization … is the best affair of business in which the capital of an old and wealthy country can engage … the same rules of international morality do not apply … between civilized nations and barbarians.
– John Stuart Mill [20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873], quoted by Eileen Sullivan in “Liberalism and Imperialism: JS Mill’s Defense of the British Empire,” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 44, 1983.
The events of 11 September 2001 were intended to impose and enshrine a new Exceptionalist paradigm on the young 21st century. History, though, ruled otherwise.
FROM 11 SEPTEMBER TO 7 OCTOBER: THE FAKE ‘WAR ON TERROR’ COLLAPSES