We should also recall the fate of other overextended empires that exhausted their human and financial treasure, so weakening themselves from within that their power eroded and they became vulnerable from without.
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Suicide removed Antony and Cleopatra and their potential menace in 30 bc, and the annexation of Egypt with its Ptolemaic treasure brought financial independence.
The sum also represents a vast financial sacrifice of Saudi treasure.
It should be levied on real estate, financial and business assets, art treasures and vintage cars – no exceptions.
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There are also likely be complaints that "blood and treasure" (lives and financial investment) expended by the British forces have been wasted.
But the real treasures are "non-financial" assets buildings, land, subsoil resources which the IMF believes are worth three-quarters of GDP on average in rich economies: $35 trillion across the OECD.Some of these assets could not or should not be sold.
I wonder what the answers would be if each American asked himself or herself the question: "How is the war in Iraq helping me?" While the U.S. government continues to pour precious human treasure and vast financial resources into this ugly war without end, it is all but ignoring deeply entrenched problems that are weakening the country here at home.
