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treestar

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Thu Dec-21-06 10:39 AM
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10. Just because something was the case doesn't mean forever

It happened to the Romans but doesn't have to happen to us just because it happened to them. The world is a very different place than it was then, and we have learned something from history, one would hope, so that we don't have to decline just because. For example, we can learn from the Roman Empire and the British Empire not to bother with Empire, and that might be one way out of it.

The voters could be said to be rejecting the concept of an empire in the Middle East. Maybe we could just pay them for their oil or discover alternative energy sources. We know more than the Romans did.

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