THE PROBLEM IS EMPIRE
COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 14 Sep 2008
We will have to go back to the lessons Roman and British empires tolearn the painful lessons of imperial overextension. The lessons inblood bravely shed in lost or dubious causes. The lesson of a weakenedcapacity to fund healthcare, education, our children’s futures. Thelesson that democracy is diminished as the secrecy of the warmakingstate expands. The lesson of being hated in a world where alliances area necessity, not a choice.
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