"The primary manifestation of colonialism's horrific legacy, in practical terms for us, is bad borders. I mean, it's a no-brainer. When you go talking about Chechnya, Africa, Kashmir, and the former Yugoslavia--false borders. The primary practical legacy of the European empires--destroyed, by the way, by the United States for the most part either directly or with us as catalysts or giving the coup de grace--the legacy is bad borders. In Africa, most obviously borders drawn in Berlin in two conferences in the 1880's by men who had never been there, and didn't much care. And these bad borders--often the maps weren't even good--they had no care. It was imperial horse-trading. And they didn't care about where the tribal boundaries were."

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