Collapse of a "hyperpower".(collapse of Rome, United States)

New Criterion | April 1, 2006| | Copyright

After September II and the acrimonious war in Iraq, America was castigated as the world's sole "empire" "hegemon," or "hyperpower." A series of books, especially in Europe, not only lamented the overweening power of the United States, but gleefully predicted our imminent collapse. The fate of Rome was the obvious and frequent imperial referent, the subtext of any such comparison being that an inwardly decadent America was no match for its poorer, more numerous, and zealous enemies: the Islamists would simply kick in an already rotten door.

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