Saw a very interesting documentary recently covering my thoughts pretty much on the subject. This guy is pro-American, he uses mistakes and victories of the British Empire as a benchmark for America (since Britain was involved in Iraq and Afghanistan). We have it within us but Ferguson details why it can't be achieved:

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I'll tell you this no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn
Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too
You may bury my body, down by the highway side,
so my old evil spirit can get a Greyhound bus and ride.