If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.------
Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.----Niall Ferguson
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