"There is an increasing tendency among the anti-American forces to describe the US as being like Rome, trying to dominate the world. There are analogies to be drawn, but are the people who thus condemn US hegemony really willing to see the consequences which followed the fall of the Roman empire? Are they willing to inflict on the world what the Barbarians, the Visigoths and all the other challengers of Roman power did, destroying civilisation for many years?"
"... it is clear that, as usual, the progressives, like the barbarians, seek destruction rather than reform."
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