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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (162620)5/19/2005 7:04:18 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Eventually Rome died not because too many people wanted to join in, but because it failed to reform itself to provide scalable and equitable services for all its citizens. Militarism is a very self destructive path. And this is a worthy lesson for everyone to remember.


Have you ever read a history of Rome? Where are you dragging this piffle up from? Ridley Scott's Gladiator? Rome didn't fall from an excess of militarism, but a lack of it - the citizens wouldn't serve, they just wanted the benes without the work, and hired foreign mercenaries to the fighting, who became uncontrollable factors in politics.
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