Antiwar.com Original
When does neo-imperialist subtext tip over to overt imperialism? Well, when
it comes to America’s Africa policy, apparently it’s when
Foreign Affairs
indulges the published
fantasies of a multigenerational military trio of facsimile David Petraeuses
peddling un-ironic Rudyard Kipling reprises. In the piece in question, retired
Air Force Major General Marcus
Hicks, and U.S. Army Majors Kyle
Atwell and Dan
Collini don’t pull punches – and are just a bit too on the neocolonial
nose – off-handedly asserting: "Like it or not, a twenty-first century "scramble
for Africa" is underway." Allow me to translate that into late 19th