http://geraldmeaders.blogspot.com/2010/08/re-price-wars-post-situation-versus.html
I am especially proud of this bon mot:
'No one elsewhere is likely to mimic any revolutionary regime change happening here unless they have a major hand in fashioning it, because for one thing, contrary to popular opinion, they generally weren't sold on our existing political system in the first place except as an economic market victim of now waning importance to them, and what we replace it with is otherwise unlikely to be adopted as a model abroad. Certainly they will not look in future to America as either a market or a source of technological expertise, except perhaps military technology. Most of them have now taken most of our technology worth having, by gift, theft, license, or other voluntary transfer.
As Schama points out, in The History of Britain, the Romans' main conquest question was usually:
What is there there worth having?'
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