That definition is all Poe. From "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" I think. Ichor is to be taken as a stinking liquid substance that oozes from the recently deceased.
I spent a few years living in Baltimore in my early 20's and I became quite enamored of everything Poe (who died and is buried in Baltimore) wrote. He was an absolute boss. His unmatched style and total command of language makes him the greatest American writer of the 19th century, and perhaps, all-time, IMo.
So: spend hundreds of billions and cause billions in losses to the US economy in order to bomb brown people overseas before they get a chance to immigrate and subsequently add billions of dollars to the US economy.
Got it.
Nazis are so ------- dumb.