Blackwater: Murderous Crusaders for Christ
November 30th, 2009An elite division of Blackwater plans targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan.
And everyone’s denying it.
Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan Revealed
What does it profit a country to gain the whole world, yet lose its soul?
November 30th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Excellent question. Past empire builders have for the most part figured it out too late, e.g., Alexander the Great, the Romans, the Spanish, the French under Napoleon, the Germans and the Russians. No soul left, and the world was never conquered by any of them.
The British alone seemed to have got out at the appropriate time, understanding provided for them most famously by Mahatma Gandhi, although a case can be made that the Soviet empire was also deliberately disbanded at an opportune time, more or less unwittingly by Mikhail Gorbachev aided and abetted by Boris Yeltsin, who was well aware of what he was doing.
Future empires should not be political entities founded on force and economic imperative, but rather empires of humanism and culture, built by free individuals who have got past the delusion that they can create happiness for themselves by creating unhappiness for others.