This Is How Empires End

This Is How Empires End

by Patrick J. Buchanan (July 20, 2007)

With a U.S. defeat in Iraq, U.S. prestige would plummet across the region. Who will rely on a U.S. commitment for its security? Like the British and French before us, we will be heading home from the Middle East.

What we are about to witness is how empires end.

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