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At the opening of the 20th 
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There were five Great Western 
Empires. 

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The British French Russian, 
German and austro-hungarian into

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emerging great Powers, Japan and
United States by centuries and 

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all the Empire's had 
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How did they perish by War? 
All of them? 

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The austro-hungarian empire was 
crushed in World War one and 

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Torn to Pieces at Versailles 
where Germany was also 

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dismembered a vengeful. 
Reich then began a second. 

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European War ruin was total 
Japan believing its Empire was 

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being extorted. 
Its place in the sun denied 

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attacked America and was smashed
Like No Other Nation in history,

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the British and French Empires 
already bled in the trenches of 

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the Western Front from August 
1914, to November 1918. 

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Did not long survive. 
Hitler's War, Russia's Empire? 

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Dismantled. 
By the Kaiser in 1918 was 

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restored by Lenin's Bolsheviks, 
driven by traditional Russian 

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imperialism and a new fighting 
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Communism, the Soviet Empire 
expanded until it's for each was

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Global overextended bankrupt. 
Exhausted by a 50-year struggle 

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against a u.s. 
LED West that far surpassed the 

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Communist Bloc in economic power
and technological prowess. 

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It collapsed after a crisis of 
faith and a law. 

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Loss of will to maintain its 
rule over subjected peoples, who

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had grown to hate it, America 
survives as the sole superpower,

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because it stayed out of the 
slaughter pens until the other 

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great Powers had fought 
themselves near to death and 

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avoided a cataclysmic clash with
a nuclear-armed. 

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Soviet Russia. 
In World War 1 Americans did not

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go into combat in great numbers 
until 1918 in World War Two 

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America. 
Do not cross the channel until 

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four years after France had 
fallen in three years after the 

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Soviet Union had began fighting 
for its life. 

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We did not go to war against 
Japan until the Japanese Army 

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had been bogged down for years. 
Fighting a no-win war against 

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the most populous nation on 
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Us casualties in the two world 
wars were thus the smallest of 

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the great powers and America in 
the 20th century has never Known

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the vast destruction that was 
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Japan or even on France and 
England yet. 

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Today. 
America's leaders are 

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re-enacting. 
Every Folly that brought these 

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great powers to ruin from 
arrogance, and hubris to 

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assertions of global hegemony, 
to Imperial overreach to 

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trumpeting new, Crusades to 
handing out War. 

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Guarantees to Regions and 
countries were Americans have 

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never. 
Fought before, we are piling up 

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the kinds of commitments that 
produced the greatest disasters 

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of the 20th century. 
That is why I have written this 

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book. 
Not for 50 years have Americans 

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had to think deeply about our 
foreign policy. 

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It was made for us by Tojo, 
Hitler Stalin Castro ho and now 

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for 50 years, America overcame 
enemies who either attacked us 

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or declared our destruction to 
be their highest ambition. 

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We will bury you. 
Khrushchev said we took him at 

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his word and buried them in the 
last days of the Cold War. 

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Something happened. 
Soviet propagandist. 

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Giorgi Arbiter of said, we are 
going to do the worst thing we 

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can do to you. 
We are going to take your enemy 

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away from you. 
And so they did. 

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And so we have had to face. 
The question asked in the war 

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movies of our youth. 
What are we going to do Joe? 

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When this is all over Saddam, 
Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, 

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briefly gave us a new Hitler and
George Bush, an opportunity to 

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smash a rack. 
And to declare the building of a

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new world order to be America's 
Next Crusade, but the nation did

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not buy in. 
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It turned its back on Bush, 
giving 37 percent of the vote to

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a president whose approval 18 
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as in the 1920s Americans have 
tuned out foreign affairs and 

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tuned in the stock market and 
the Dolls, but as the good times

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of the 1920s ended the 
depression decade and WWII the 

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21st century will not leave 
America Serene in its 

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preeminence already and it means
collude against what they 

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consider. 
Intolerable American hegemony. 

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This is a fundamental question. 
Any foreign policy must answer. 

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What will we fight for? 
What are the vital interests for

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which America will sacrifice the
blood of its young with our 

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great enemy gone. 
The answer is not a simple one. 

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For we Americans disagree on 
what our Vital interests are, 

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what our role in the world 
should be and whom we should 

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defend without some new foreign 
Peril. 

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America is never. 
Want to know again, that Unity, 

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we knew in World War Two and the
early Decades of the Cold War. 

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It may be naive to believe we 
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Again, have a foreign policy 
that unites this divided and 

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disputatious people. 
Nevertheless. 

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We must try for foreign policy 
is The Shield of the Republic 

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blunders here can be as faithful
as they were for the other great

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Empires and nations of the With 
Century, the purpose of this 

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book then is to revisit the 
history of American foreign 

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policy, its successes triumphs 
and failures from that history. 

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We can expose the myths and 
identify the true Traditions 

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upon which we can build. 
And the lessons from which we 

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can draw to offer a foreign 
policy for a new century that 

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might unite most of us and 
ensure that America endures the 

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greatest Republican history as 
Patrick Henry said, Only the 

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lamp of experience can guide our
way and the need for a course 

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correction is urgent for while 
little discussion or dissent. 

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America has undertaken the most 
open-ended and extravagant 

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commitments in history, with the
expansion of NATO. 

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We have undertaken the defense 
of Eastern Europe forever as 

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well as Central Europe from 
Norway to Turkey. 

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American troops are for the 
first time in history, policing.

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In the Balkans, we have 
undertaken the Dual containment 

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of Iraq, and Iran, and the 
ground. 

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And Naval Defence of the Persian
Gulf. 

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These new war guarantees have 
been added to Old Cold War 

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commitments, to the security of 
Israel in a hostile Arab world 

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to defense of Korea, Japan, 
Australia, and Sido pact nations

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of Southeast. 
Asia, not to mention every lat. 

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American member state of the 
real packed voices can even be 

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heard in Washington asserting. 
A vital us interest in 

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preventing Russia and Iran from 
dominating. 

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The South Caucasus us War 
guarantees to Poland today and 

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Lithuania Latvia Estonia, and 
Romania. 

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Tomorrow may seem Costless, 
painless and popular, but so, 

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did England's guarantee of 
belgians neutrality. 

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In 1839, which dragged Britain 
into the Great War cost, it 

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hundreds of thousands of dead 
and inflicted on the Empire. 

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A wound from which it would 
never recover. 

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Our country is today, traveling 
the same path that was trod by 

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the British Empire to the same 
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Do we want America to end that 
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Finally a quote from Frederick 
the great, he who wants to 

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defend everything defends 
nothing and he who wants to be. 

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Everyone's friend has no friends
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This was a quote from a 
republic. 

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Not an Empire by Patrick J 
Buchanan. 

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Thank you for watching Keith 
Knight. 

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Don't tread on anyone and the 
libertarian Institute.