Posted on 11/19/2015 6:19:24 PM PST by jocon307
I am not going to repeat what you have already read or heard. I am not going to say that what happened in Paris on Friday night was unprecedented horror, for it was not. I am not going to say that the world stands with France, for it is a hollow phrase. Nor am I going to applaud President Hollande's pledge of "pitiless" vengeance, for I do not believe it. I am, instead, going to tell you that this is exactly how civilizations fall.
Here is how Edward Gibbon described the Gothsâ sack of Rome in August 410 AD:
"In the hour of savage license, when every passion was inflamed, and every restraint was removed . . . a cruel slaughter was made of the Romans; and . . . the streets of the city were filled with dead bodies . . . Whenever the Barbarians were provoked by opposition, they extended the promiscuous massacre to the feeble, the innocent, and the helpless . . ."
Now, does that not describe the scenes we witnessed in Paris on Friday night?
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
Oops. My bad.
Except that it’s not an invasion, it’s an invitation!
Or should I say, an invasion by invitation.
Much of the initial influx of the various barbarian tribes into the Roman Empire involved their permitted settlement in Roman territory as they arrived [i]en masse[/i] from the East at the Danube and other borders in desperate straits.... it only turned into invasions after a considerable while....
You’re right... In fact wasn’t there a famous battle or event associated with that that marked the beginning of the end of Rome?
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