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16. I presume it's because her husband, Niall Ferguson, a supporter of US empire, wrote the book.

Niall Ferguson appears to be fond of aggressive war.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/20/niall-ferguson-interview-civilization

In two consecutive books, Empire and Colossus – published, not by accident, around the time of the Iraq invasion – he charted the respective imperial histories of Britain and America, concluding not only that Britain should be prouder of its colonial past, but that the world would be a better place if America imitated Victorian Britain and became a fully fledged liberal empire. Though both books were bestsellers and won Ferguson scores of new admirers, especially in the US, they also, not surprisingly, drew heavy criticism from the left....

As many of his critics have noted, Ferguson's emergence as an advocate of empire coincided with the rise of neoconservatism in the US and the drive to displace Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. (In the run-up to the war, Ferguson was a vocal supporter of invasion.) Although he became critical of US policy once the occupation took place, and now distances himself from the neocons, he remains unrepentant about his pro-war stance, arguing that the real problem was that the invasion was "botched" because of the Bush administration's failure to commit sufficient manpower and resources to it. ("The problem I constantly wrote about then was that if you invade and overthrow the bad guy, hold elections and then piss off, it doesn't work.&quot Nor does he rule out supporting similar campaigns in future. "It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out."

I presume Ayaan Hirsi Ali met Niall Ferguson through her work at the neoconservative AEI where she was hired after her career in Dutch politics collapsed after her fraudulent past was exposed. It looked really bad for Ayaan Hirsi Ali to be a member of an anti-immigration party when she was granted asylum in the Netherlands through fraud.

Henry Kissinger attended their wedding.