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Review title: The Reason Journalists Shouldn't Write History
Product review: Kaplan tries to sustain his "theme" of America as the new imperial power with extremely superficial references to Roman history, a subject he obviously does not understand. A whole book based on the typical journalistic technique of taking a single observation and implying that it represents a much greater whole. Some interesting bits, but full of unsubtantiated "facts" For example, Kaplan accepts taht Yemen is "estimated to have" 80 million small arms for a country of 20 million (love the use of passive voice.) No human being has any idea how many Yemenis there are, much less how many guns are in the country. Shouldn't Kaplan have simply asked how anyone could possibly know this? Respectful, generally, of the military men he met, but a very thin piece of work.
