They ransack the world, and now that the earth fails to contain their all-devastating grasp, they scour even the sea: if their enemy has wealth, they are greedy; if he is poor, they are ambitious; neither East nor West has satiated their hunger . . . They plunder, they murder, they rape, all in the name of their so-called empire. And where they have left desolation, they call it ‘peace’.37 The great Roman peace was a peace that was created and sustained by merciless violence.
