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A question I first heard after the Columbine shooting.

In his review of Are We Rome? The Fall of America and the Fate of An Empire by Cullen Murphy, Tim Heffernan offers a quick comparison of the two empires. “Governments begin to fail when they lose sight of all that’s going on under their watch. Rome got too big physically; we’ve become too complex operationally. Or, to use Murphy’s taut phrase, “Bureaucracy is the new geography.”

“Rome sought ever-increasing military might, a goal that emptied the treasuries and led military affairs to define the purpose of the Roman government — exactly what Eisenhower was talking about when he warned of the military-industrial complex. . .”