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The idea that the US can long dominate the world by force when it is the
biggest debtor in the history of mankind and the proud owner of a collapsing currency puts Napoleon's or Hitler's megalomania to shame.
As the costs of empire continue to grow and foreigners tire of financing it on the cheap --downward pressure on the American standard of living via some combination of recession, further shredding of the social safety net, and inflation will intensify.
By then the gap between the beltway consensus and mass opinion will be wider than the Grand Canyon and perhaps as wide as the fissures that lead to the French Revolution .
