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American Empire- It Is An Empire That Lacks The Drive To Export Its Capital, Its People And Its Culture To Those Backward Regions Which Need Them Most Urgently And Which, If They Are Neglected, Will Breed The Greatest Threats To Its Security. It Is An Empire, In Short, That Dare Not Speak Its Name. It Is An Empire In Denial.

Empires, Essentially, Create Order. In Their Absence, You Don't End Up With Lots Of Happy, Little Nation-states Full Of People Sitting Around Campfires Singing John Lennon's "imagine." What You End Up With Is Civil War, Anarchy.

When Bond Prices Fall, Interest Rates Soar, With Painful Consequences For All Borrowers.

No Civilization, No Matter How Mighty It May Appear To Itself, Is Indestructible.

The Law Of Unintended Consequences Is The Only Real Law Of History.