If a great city or a great state should fall as the result of an apparent "accident", the there would be a general reason why it required only an accident to make it fall. (Christopher Hitchens)

If a great city or a great state should fall as the result of an apparent "accident", the there would be a general reason why it required only an accident to make it fall.

Christopher Hitchens

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