[Terpfen]

Comparisons of America to Rome are baseless. One obvious, major difference between the two is that America is not an empire.

[mhx]

Rome was a republic before it was an empire. I think the comparison that's more appropriate is the one between the Roman and American republics.

[dangus]

"Comparisons of America to Rome are baseless. One obvious, major difference between the two is that America is not an empire."

Rome was nice too, until Julius Caesar converted a Republic into a totalitarian hellhole.