By Joe LAURIA
The U.S. secretary of state is reviving the language and intent of 19th century colonialism to deter what he sees as "the forces of civilizational erasure that today menace both America and Europe alike," writes Joe Lauria.
Cecil Rhodes may have been the most unabashed imperialist of the modern era. In his 1877 "Confession of Faith," he wrote:
"I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.