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A Bad Year for Empire - by Jim Lobe

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For those who believed that the precise and overwhelming demonstration of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and Iraq would "shock and awe" the rest of the world - and particularly Washington's foes and aspiring rivals - into accepting its benevolent hegemony, 2006 was not a good year.

Jim Lobe runs down the litany of woes for the erstwhile managers of empire. Almost makes you cry... So much for benevolent hegemony, eh?
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