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To: EnigmaticAnomaly
Well, if you look at the two city-states critically, Athens would have leaned more toward liberalism while Sparta leaned more toward Conservatism. We’re talking shades of gray here, however.

Sparta was a totalitarian nightmare--children reared collectively by the State, being left out to die if they weren't physically perfect, and being brutalized into becoming fighting machines. How any conservative (of the American variety) can claim to admire Sparta is absolutely beyond me.

21 posted on 10/24/2013 9:21:02 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The Left: speaking power to truth since Shevirat HaKelim.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
How any conservative (of the American variety) can claim to admire Sparta is absolutely beyond me.

they've watched 300 too many times...

22 posted on 10/25/2013 2:12:37 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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