I feel like we are in the declining years of the Roman Empire — troops always fighting somewhere on a far frontier, while in Rome the politicians party like there was no tomorrow.
That didn’t end well...
The similarities are alarming.
Sadly, you are correct
Yes, and add to that massive debt, rapid currency devaluation, and a huge class of elites, cronies, business monopolists back in Rome, all gaming the system and sucking on the tit of massive centralized government.
Good observation. The hubris of Bush and his neocon buddies got us into this mess. The US should have bombed those mountains flat then left. Iraq should not have happened at all. What a tragic loss of good Americans for nothing but the pipe dreams of arrogant policy wonks who thought they could change the world.