I was reading "Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East" these days, and fount it a real eye opener to all the glories and stumbles of Great Britain had from its high-noon to dusk(1820s to 1920s) in the middle east (Middle East is a term coined by an American strategist, Captain Alfred Thayer in his 1902 National Review article.).
Current US occupation of Iraq can very much be compared to British ruling of Egypt, only less tactical and more violent. History proves that every empire eventually falls. It's quite short-sighted for the neoconservatives to take the supreme economic and military status of Imperial US since 1950s for granted and act as if it will last forever. With oil price reaching $110 a barrel, we are seeing the turning point of an empire built on top of petroleum.
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