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Thread #62242 Message #1005840
Posted By: Peter T.
21-Aug-03 - 09:42 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Sergio Vieira de Mello UN Envoy to Iraq
Subject: RE: Obit: Sergio Vieira de Mello UN Envoy to Iraq
This -- as some people said -- is how empires get rolling. You create new enemies, and have to protect yourself, and reach further out, creating new enemies, and so on. Eventually you have to divide the world into satrapies (5 zones), have armed forces in 137 countries, who need to be protected, and on and on. It is all nicely worked out in Gibbon.