War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

Never before or since, ... has the world been brought so close to nuclear war.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Our concerns are the same as they were back in 1999 when the NEOS proposal first came forward.

Get him out of there.

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.