Some level of perfidy is inevitable in any empire, the US cannot be an exception.
It's an intricate complex process, the ruling of many peoples, there will be mistakes.
We don't have the minutiae of the Roman Empire, but we do have Gibbon -
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They come, they thrive, they peak, and they fall. Each step has within it the seeds of the next. This would apply as much to the regime Milosevic heads as to the one led by Clinton. I don't think morality has much to do with anything really, other than as a tool for obfuscating the Realpolitik. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was violated almost from the date of its signing, so the United States of America is illegally occupying half of the sovereign state of los Estados Unidos de México. Sure it's immoral. So what? - it works.
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