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That gets to the second reason why President Bush couldn’t build a “hegemonic?? empire of subject-states: Voters wouldn’t stand for it. We Americans tend to be an inward-looking bunch, wary of expending blood and treasure on overseas adventures that are unrelated to national security. As military historian Victor Davis Hanson emphasizes, U.S. power is ultimately not restrained by “China, Russia, or the European Union, but rather by the American electorate itself—whose reluctant worries are chronicled weekly by polls that are eyed...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: Empire, Schmempire | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

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