1.0 link 48385 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-mclemee/are-we-rome_b_48385.html During that strange period of 18 months between 9/11 and the start of the Iraq war, the chattering classes of the United States were seized by the thought that the country must finally face its destiny. We must put away childish distractions and forge a mighty global order to defend civilization from evildoers. It was time. We had the right, the might and the obligation to impose our will on what Rudyard Kipling had once called "lesser breeds without the...

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