Posted on 01/14/2011 7:51:22 PM PST by Kozel89
The fall of the Roman Empire can be attributed to the rise of the Praetorian Guard. (snip) Empires are dead, or at least increasingly untenable; but even a modern polity needs a Praetorian Guard. In India we call it the Special Protection Group, created for a select band of ruling class VIPs rather than just a dynasty. Pakistan has its own and more appropriately named Elite Force. The job requires grit and courage, because implicit in its discipline is the compulsion to act as a human shield between the assassin and the leader. What happens when the shield becomes the killer? (snip) We are seeing, unless we are lucky, the future of Pakistan on the face of Malik Qadri. The Praetorian Guard has risen.
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Seriously? That was a long fall when you consider that Caligula was the third Roman emperor and the Praetorians offed him in 41 a.d. - the Roman empire survived for over 400 years after that.
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