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POPSImperial America? The full article offers the opinion that comparisons between ancient Rome at its frontiers and the United States in Iraq are inapropos. The author asks the intriquing question: If America and its allies had not tried to intervene in Iraq, and the country had descended into sectarian violence, killing and ethnic cleansing, would we in the West feel an obligation to intercede as we did in the former Yugoslavia and failed to do in Rwanda?