The human mind appears to have a mind all of its own. We humans seem not to have the slightest clue as to which thought is going to next impose itself upon our minds. Oh, we know what we are thinking at the moment, or what thought we have just thought, but we seem to have absolutely no clue as to what thought will arrive next to our brains. I, for example, am absolutely unable to prevent myself imagining nothing more than the gruesome slaughter of countless thousands of "collaborators with the infidels" after British and American troupes pull out of Afghanistan and Iraq at the end of 2014, and, like you, I do not know what thought will next impose itself upon my mind, but the thought that is imposing itself now, is that if there ever was a time when colonization is completely noble it is now.
I am serious.
Remember that I did not generate this thought; this thought simply imposed itself upon my thinking, causing me to believe that woe is the world when some segment of the Middle East, is permitted by our cowardice and poor foresightedness, to continue its descent into contemporary barbarism, whatever historical and other events would have spawned such. My mind shudders with concern over the balance of civilization when fossil fuel would have outlived its usefulness to the West reducing our interest in the Middle East. My mind is telling me too, that although, in this modern era, colonialism is associated with the shadow of undesirability and distaste left on the universal tongue of history by such hellish practices as slavery, it is now a different era; an era of human civility in which some sections of civilization lag and need to be dragged into the fold of modern imagination for the sake of global civility. Be reminded that these were not my thoughts before they came into my brain. They are thoughts that come unsolicited to my head, causing me an almost unmentionable appetite for the resurrection the Bushes Senior and Junior, but particularly the junior. Something tells me that there is nothing evil about a civilized world imposing its will on barbarism, and I am unable to prevent such thought, for I had no clue such thoughts would have come to my head.
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