[Possible_Spam]

Yes we are going the way of Rome.

The Persians army came to the gates of Rome. When they found out the number of citizen solders prepared to fight, they turned around and went home. About 100 years later the Romans no longer cared for their culture enough to fight for it. Thus the Persians sacked and defeated Rome.

When a people do not care about their culture enough to fight for it, they will be defeated by another culture. This is very evident in history.

[John Will]

You mean the Germans?
Persia never sacked Constanople.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

The Persians sacked Rome?

When did this happen? Maybe you're thinking of the Vandals, I don't know...

This constant comparison of 21st century America to 5th century Rome is ludicrous, and grows tedious.

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.

[AntiGuv]

The Visigoths (410 AD) and the Vandals (455 AD) sacked Rome, then the Ostrogoths deposed the last emperor of the west (476 AD). The Persians never seriously threatened Rome after Trajan invaded Parthia and seized the capital Ctesiphon (116 AD).

As for Constantinople, it was sacked only twice: by the 4th Crusade in 1204 and by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

[supercat]

When a people do not care about their culture enough to fight for it, they will be defeated by another culture. This is very evident in history.

My hope is that the next big revolution will be a comparatively bloodless one, and will come about when liberal puppets discover that the manipulators who they've thought were their friends were in fact responsible for their misery. A difficult message to get across, but I think the time is approaching for a breakthrough on abortion which will trigger a total sea change.

[Melas]

When did the Persians defeat and sack Rome?

[Cronos]

The Persians army came to the gates of Rome. When they found out the number of citizen solders prepared to fight, they turned around and went home. About 100 years later the Romans no longer cared for their culture enough to fight for it. Thus the Persians sacked and defeated Rome.

errrr...... WHAT??? That's WRONG, W R O N G

The Persians never went past Greece -- furthermore, the "Persians" were defeated by Alexander's Army and after briefly having a Macedonian general as ruler, got the native PARTHIAN dynasty in power. The PARTHIANS never reached Rome, Parthia's power was directed in Iran, Iraq, Arabia, Central Asia and Western India.