The quick and simple answer to the question is plainly positive. The Romans didn’t have what America has today: military programs and cooperation with more than 110 countries around the globe, instant communication via satellite, the Internet (which brings this article to readers) and the attention of the world. American English is the Lingua Franca and the de facto medium for exchange of scientific and, increasingly, cultural information.

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It takes a simple-minded person to accept what is happening in Iraq as progress. After four years into an international disaster composed of political, financial and military failures, all planned around election cycles and factional postures inside the Washington Beltway, a fortified military plan was crafted as the mother of all solutions. One might wonder why America has produced the most precise Global Positioning System, but how its government has its compass!

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