The drive towards the annihilation of dissidents and peoples in 20th-century Europe certainly had precedents in the 19th-century imperial operations in the colonial world, where the elimination of "inferior" peoples was seen by some to be historically inevitable, and where the experience helped in the construction of the racist ideologies that arose subsequently in Europe.
The drive towards the annihilation of dissidents and peoples in 20th-century Europe certainly had precedents in the 19th-century imperial operations in the colonial world, where the elimination of "inferior" peoples was seen by some to be historically inevitable, and where the experience helped in the construction of the racist ideologies that arose subsequently in Europe.
In his speech to the Conservative party conference this month, David Cameron looked back with Tory nostalgia to the days of empire: "Britannia didn't rule the waves with armbands on," he pointed out, suggesting that the shadow of health and safety did not hover over Britain's imperial operations when the British were building "a great nation".
In his speech to the Conservative party conference this month, David Cameron looked back with Tory nostalgia to the days of empire: "Britannia didn't rule the waves with armbands on," he pointed out, suggesting that the shadow of health and safety did not hover over Britain's imperial operations when the British were building "a great nation".
The resistance comes, because a wider interpretation might complicate their imperial operations when occupying or attacking other countries, such as unconstitutional indefinite detentions without trial at the U.S.-run Guantanamo prison in Cuba, the unconstitutional kangaroo trials by U.S. military commission there, and targeted killings by drones abroad.
Emperor's Club turns out to have been a highly un-imperial operation: Mr. Brener and Ms. Suwal's pimp mobile was a dented gray Honda minivan, and the pair arranged payoffs with some employees at a New Jersey Barnes & Noble.
The Irish rebellion, ultimately successful, bloodier in a civil war than in the guerrilla struggle, was, on the British side, a clumsy, often brutish, late imperial police operation.
Or by how the survivors, having fought under the British flag in an ultimately pointless imperial military operation, endured decades of subsequent psychological and physical pain.
The meeting was a new chapter in a dramatic – if damning – tale of missing archives, imperial purge operations and allegations of high-level state cover-ups.
Tuesday's presser was a new chapter in a dramatic, if damning, tale of missing archives, imperial purge operations, and allegations of high-level state cover-ups.
