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| | Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Jonathan Freedland: Rome, AD ... Rome, DC? |
 | | Earlier this year Krauthammer told the New York Times, "People are coming out of the closet on the word 'empire'." He argued that Americans should admit the truth and face up to their responsibilities as the undisputed masters of the world. |
 | | Rome was the superpower of its day, boasting an army with the best training, biggest budgets and finest equipment the world had ever seen. |
 | | Rome understood that, if it is to last, a world power needs to practise both hard imperialism, the business of winning wars and invading lands, and soft imperialism, the cultural and political tricks that work not to win power but to keep it. |
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