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To: SunkenCiv

Good idea. I can see it adding to the chaos of being on the receiving end of an attack. But it doesn’t seem to have saved Rome.


4 posted on 06/14/2016 1:07:41 AM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: OldNewYork
Yeah, that's for sure, the Roman Empire in the west (including Britain) only endured for another 250 years, and in the east until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. /s

5 posted on 06/14/2016 1:12:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: OldNewYork

But it doesn’t seem to have saved Rome.

the greatest civilizations are no stonger than its weakest elements...Rome defeated itself, as all great nations must...


9 posted on 06/14/2016 1:59:37 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: OldNewYork
But it doesn’t seem to have saved Rome.

Imperial troops and superior technology can't save a nation from its own political corruption and moral decay.

12 posted on 06/14/2016 3:21:39 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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