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How long ago was it that you last heard some pundit blather on about
America being "the greatest empire since Rome"?

Quite a while, I imagine. For if the Iraqi insurgency has done nothing
else, it has induced a sense of humility, and of the limits of American
power.

Surely, all Americans hope the Iraqi elections will usher in a
coalition that will let u..

Churchillian it was not. Yet the State of the Union seemed a success if Bush’s purpose was to buy time from Congress to wait and see if his surge of US forces into Iraq might yet succeed.

But when Bush started to describe the ideological war we are in, one began to understand why we are in the mess we are in.

"This war," said Bush, "is an ideological struggle. ... To prevail, ..