Are We Going The Way of Rome? - (Caution! - this is a "no spin zone!")

MACKINAC.ORG ^ | SEPTEMBER 1, 1002 | LAWRENCE W. REED

[Billthedrill]

Concerning the restoration of republicanism, I'd opt for Florence. Machiavelli certainly did his best to make it so.

[AntiGuv]

Syria was part of the Seleucid Empire, but his base was in Mesopotamia. He also ruled the 'important' western parts of Persia. The Parthians controlled the bulk of Persia eastward, and eventually regained it entirely and became synonymous with Persia for a few centuries.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Rome's fall had more to do with incessent civil war then it did with anything else. We've had one. I'll get worried when we hit an even dozen.

i would call the recent election pretty much akin to a civil war -- wouldn't you say so?

No.

[Kevin OMalley]

Ping for later reading. I like the pig catching analogy, and some of the history comments are worth following.

[expatguy]

We are in fact headed for self destruction.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[durasell]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/052165629X/002-4853882-1848812?v=glance

[Cronos]

I guess a god would know this.

well, uh, yeah.... if it wasn't for that pesky brat Zeus *rant!!

[Doofer]

This article could be more accurately applied to Europe.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks for this posting!

[weegee]

Nations limited their support for John Kerry to illegal fundraising, taunting Ohio voters by mail, and some "absentee" voting this time around. Some of the foot patrol protesters were likely from outside of this country (as many of the G8 Summit and WTO protesters are). Kerry's riot brigades were waiting for the call. DUmmies were ready to storm Ohio and forestall the inevitable; they are still upset with the DNC that the wind was let out of their sails the day after the election.

The troops (internationally) are ready for a physical fight. Just witness how outsiders have flocked to Iraq to cause havoc. It CAN happen here.

[weegee]

We have a great capacity for self-renewal. I feared the worst for this country when I was young and experiencing the 60's, the Viet Nam War, the Cold War, and the Carter years of stagflation, economic and military decline, and national failure. But then came Reagan and an American renaissance that continues still.

John Kerry, Ramsey Clark, and others who are behind this current division were behind the 1960s radical separatism as well. They inspired their followers to burn down armories, recruiting centers, assassinate law enforcement officers, and plotted to kill elected congressmen. Same vicious circle.

Those same radicals (who are brethren to the bomb throwing communists and anarchists of the 1920s in America) would look on 12 years of Reagan-Bush as a low point of 25 years of American politics.

[Remember_Salamis]

Thank you for this article. It made my day.

[Nick Danger]

Hey, another Irish-German!

That's when I'm sober. With a few drinks in me, I become a German Irishman. Watch out for that guy ;-)

[Rockingham]

All too true. When we trace the lineage of ideas and recruitment, it becomes clear that we are still fighting the struggle between Marxism and the principles of self-government laid down in the Constitution. The division of Western civilization in the Enlightenment remains unhealed, with self-government based on freedom and faith pitted against materialism aiming at the forcible perfection of man guided by science and reason.

[television is just wrong]

We are on that path. I don't see this being taught in the history classes in highschool.

[alwaysconservative]

Thank you for posting this thought-provoking article! We ignore its warnings and comparisons at our own risk; likewise, we ignore its optimism only in an excess of partisanship.

[alwaysconservative]

Excellent and thoughtful post!

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

The Republic is dead.

We are waiting for the first Emperor.

Depending on who that is, we could still have a long, happy time ahead of us as subjects.

Or not.

[Rockingham]

Thanks.

[CGVet58]

excellent, excellent article! many thanks.