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Empires Without Imperialism with Jeanne Morefield

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Foreign Policy in the Middle East

In Ferguson and ignatiev, the real fixation was on keeping people from looking too closely. Because if they looked at that violence too closely and they lost their nerve, then that is what would cause civilization to collapse. And so you have to constantly reassure people that, in fact, of all the things that we believe about ourselves,. "i call him the empire whisperer," says David Frum.

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