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48hrs to choose your God

Contributor: banquosghost

Date: 2003-03-19 22:00:05


"Just like a monopoly, a sole superpower is most successful when it does not advertise what it is."

Rome certainly kept it's preeminence pretty quiet. The Khans were almost obsessive about making sure no one knew about them. Not many knew about Great Britain's empire and power. Gopod knows France's day in the sun was almost entirely a secret.

Empires throw their weight around. They have to. If they don't every upstart yahoo will think they've got what it takes. So to prevent that they become "preemptive".

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48hrs to choose your God

Contributor: Vox

Date: 2003-03-20 23:07:04


I'm a little baffled by your "byzantine" comparisons but okay, by your analogies the US will colonize Iraq and won't leave unless they're forced to. We'll have to see then, won't we?

BTW, have you ever taken a course in microeconomics?

Throwing one's weight around is a heck of a lot more work than just sitting back, collecting your profits and taking luxury vacations in those countries that you avoid having to throw "your weight" upon. I mean, you never know what some disgruntled waiter might throw in your soup...;#}

Oppression works best when the victims are unaware of it.



Vox Canadiana

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