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Cullen Murphy

“The bigger the entity and the more things it touches, the more susceptible it is to forces beyond its control. Maintaining stability requires far more work than formenting instability. Analysts of modern terrorism wring their hands over a version of the same dilemma: governments can win only by defending everywhere; terrorists can win by succeeding anywhere.”

Cullen Murphy, Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
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Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy
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