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To: Ilaine who wrote (45693)	9/20/2002 3:47:23 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Are the Americans the new Romans? We certainly don't act like Romans, though we have garrisons all over the world and our multinationals may properly be seen as imperial adjuncts. The Romans were brutal whenever any of their representatives were harmed by the locals. If a pro-consul or some other Roman official was killed by the locals, the town in question would be burned, the locals' fields would be salted, the wells poisoned, the men killed, the women raped, and the children sold into slavery. As a result, Roman officials were quite safe. Whenever our embassies are bombed and our citizens killed, we sit back and take it or disturb the rubble using a few cruise missiles. When our soldiers are killed by mobs, like they were in Mogadishu, we retreat. Romans would have had no compunction about flattening Mogadishu and its citizens. It would have disappeared from the map. Osama bin Laden would have been a minor pest to the Romans. Saddam would be lucky to be alive. The Romans would be aghast if they saw us. They would not understand our reluctance to use our awesome military power to impose peace and to brutally avenge deaths of our citizens. Ahhh, the good old days.

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