Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
You can't just hoard your ideas inside the ivory tower. You have to get them out into the world.
As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
We do not need the empire to give us anything.
All great empires die from within.
'The Assassins' Gate' is a very tightly controlled story of the ideas that led to the war and the consequences of those ideas in Iraq, and there is no doubt about where it is going and what kind of groundwork is being laid.