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2 Reasons to Hold a U.S. Stocks-Dominated Portfolio

the decline of the roman and british empire....and ultimatley the fall of the soviet union in our own era, shared a common characteristic, touched on by dilettantedu de:

each had expansion-minded governments that pushed the limits of their natural borders, imposing their values and beliefs on other nations. imperialism is fraught with grave risk and it has been the downfall of many nations.

the u.s. has followed this tack time and again post WWII. our "war on terror" is the latest example. it wasn't glorious enough for us to merely capture and punish the evildoers behind the crime...we had to characterize it as a "war against evil" to justify invading iraq so we could remold it in our image.

we don't even learn the hard way.