Nothing – not even the American-led Free World – lasts forever. David Cameron, gearing up to deal with the latest Falklands crisis, knows this. Barack Obama, confronting the daily disasters of Afghanistan, learned it at his father’s knee. Yet as they meet this week in Washington, the two leaders, who must yearn to concentrate on the economic travails that have entrapped their nations, will spend most of their time together wrestling with the administration of an imperial legacy.
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