charge of covering up or distracting from the failures of the American military to carry out its orders, see Christopher de Bellaigue, “Loot,” Granta, no. 83 (Fall 2003), pp. 193-211. For Bogdanos’s own attempt to conflate the looting in Iraq with the international trade in illegally obtained antiquities, see “The Terrorist in the Art Gallery,” New York Times, December 10, 2005.
137. Ed Vulliamy “Troops ’Vandalize’ Ancient City of Ur,” Observer, May 18, 2003, http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4671554-102275,00.html; Paul Johnson, Art: A New History (New York: HarperCollins, 2003), pp. 18, 35; Polk and Schuster, Looting of Iraq Museum, p. 99, % 25.
138. “Tallil Air Base,” GlobalSecurity.org, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/tallil.htm.
139. Max Mallowan, Mallowan’s Memoirs (London: Collins, 1977), p. 61.
140. Rory McCarthy and Maev Kennedy, “Babylon Wrecked by War,” Guardian, January 15, 2005, http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5104058-103550,00.html.
141. Owen Bowcott, “Archaeologists Fight to Save Iraqi Sites,” Guardian, June 20, 2005, http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1510061,00.html.
142. Zainab Bahrani, “The Fall of Babylon,” in Polk and Schuster, Looting of Iraq Museum, p. 214. See also Bahrani, “Looting and Conquest,” Nation, May 14, 2003, http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtmPi-20030526 & s=bahrani.
143. Associated Press, “Hussein’s Gazelles Feed Marine Base,” San Diego Union- Tribune, April 19, 2003.
2: COMPARATIVE IMPERIAL PATHOLOGIES: ROME, BRITAIN, AND AMERICA
1. Cornel West is particularly interesting on the relationship between “prophetic Christians” and “Constantinian Christians.” See his Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (New York: Penguin, 2004), pp. 146-69.
2. Robert C. Byrd, The Senate of the Roman Republic (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1995), p. 41.
3. Anthony Everitt, Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician (New York: Random House, 2001), p. 67.
4. Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome (New York: New Press, 2003), p. 191.
5. Ibid., p. 181.
6. Ibid., p. 221.
7. Ibid., p. 16.
8. Ibid., pp. 50, 204.
9. Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (New York: Doubleday, 2003), pp. 181-82.
10. Ibid., p. 8.
11. Patrick E. Tyler, “U.S. Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop,” New York Times, March 8, 1992.
12. Paul Wolfowitz, “Remembering the Future,” National Interest, Spring 2000, p. 36; David Armstrong, “Dick Cheney’s Song of America: Drafting a Plan for Global Dominance,” Harper’s Magazine, October 2002, pp. 76-83.
13. Holland, Rubicon, p. 177.
14. Ibid., p. 167.
15. Ed Harriman, “Where Has All the Money Gone?” London Review of Books, July 7, 2005, pp. 3-7; Pratap Chatterjee, Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004).
16. For a map showing the “Tiber River,” see James Sterling Young, The Washington Community, 1800-1828 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1966), p. 67. Also see Byrd, Senate of the Roman Republic, p. 183.
17. Holland, Rubicon, pp. xv-xvi.
18. Ibid., p. xvii.
19. Everitt, Cicero, p. 12.
20. See, for example, Dana Priest, “The CinCs: Proconsuls to the Empire,” in The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military (New York: Norton, 2003), pp. 61-77.
21. Byrd, Senate of the Roman Republic, p. 50.
22. Holland, Rubicon, p. 21.
23. Parenti, Assassination of Julius Caesar, pp. 54-55.
24. Everitt, Cicero, p. 14.
25. Ibid., pp. 321-22.
26. Ibid., p. 11.
27. Holland, Rubicon, pp. 161-62.
28. Everitt, Cicero, pp. 126-27.
