[wrathof59]

Conventional warefare is only one part of the stregnth of any one people.

Great cultures throughout the centuries died from within, i.e. low birth rates, decline of national purpose, generational decline in promoting and preserving their identity and educational system, etc.

The influx of a different culture, typically with higher birthrates, usually accelerates the host culture's decline.

The barbarians are at the gate!

[Burkeman1]

Yes- I agree 100%! And yet we waste our resources in these fruitless invasions and empire builing? And meanwhile conservatives are told (yet again) that we must suffer "Big government" to fight this threat and compromise with the Liberals at home. And they are not exactely opposed to this war either.

Meanwhile conservatives are split, our culture decays and becomes even more hedonistic as the temporary benefits of Empire feed our unearned desires and undermine our very beliefs.

Empire is the death of every nation in history.