[pacelvi]

I”m not up on the latest Latin lingo :) what does that mean.

[pogo101]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est

[Fiji Hill]

Paraphrasing Cato the Elder, Mikeus is calling for CAIR's destruction.

[Rummyfan]

Repeated by Cato the Elder I believe in the Roman Senate way back when, but his saying was

Carthago delende est

tranlsating to Carthage must be destroyed!

[elcid1970]

In the Roman Senate, the reknowned orator Cato the Elder delivered a series of fiery speeches calling for the elimination of the North African city-state of Carthage as a threat to Rome by ending each oration with,

“Carthago delenda est!!” (Carthage must be destroyed!”)

Now, as a high-school student of Latin, I could never figure out how the intransitive `est’ (”to be”) got translated into the transitive verb “must be destroyed”.

(Heu, constat non sum bonum studentum Latinae.)