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Thursday, June 05, 2003

A threadbare emperor tours the world

As Bush makes his triumphal procession from the favorite state of his "new Europe", Poland, to Russia's imperial capital, St Petersburg, to the Group of Eight (G8) meeting in Evian, France, and then to the Middle East to impart some momentum to a "roadmap" for peace between Arabs and Israelis, his entourage may yet hear mutterings of the Ides of March.
After all, the notion that the new world order most closely resembles Caesar's Pax Romana has become commonplace. History, so its advocates argue, is now witnessing a Pax Americana.
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