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Niall Ferguson: America’s Brittle Empire

Posted by Matt in October 24th, 2006

The U.S. doesn’t have the necessary military manpower or fiscal solvency of its imperial predecessors in Iraq.

YOU WOULD HAVE thought 300 million Americans would be enough to rule the world � or at least a couple of medium-sized failed states. The population of Iraq is 27 million, that of Afghanistan 31 million. Yet the same week that the U.S. population officially passed the 300-million mark, we heard two startling admissions that testify to the scale of crisis facing Washington’s unspoken empire.

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