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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (323898)1/31/2007 1:38:48 PM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) of 1575882
 
Rome wasn't the "indigenous people". It was a local power in Italy, but it had not yet conquered and assimilated all of Italy.
Rome and Phyrrus/Epirus where fighting about who would be the dominate power over groups of indigenous people that where neither Roman nor Epiruian.

You are nitpicking again. Phyrrus was divided from his native land by a sea...rome was a couple hundred miles north from Apulia (where i was born by the way) where the key battles were fought. Who cares really. The point is that Phyrrus won but lost and had to go home. Just like the brits and now us.

I'd correct it to say some of the indigenous people. I'd also add that the situation is chaotic and complex, but yes I do believe that about Iraq because its true.

I think people who supported this war are finding it difficult to walk away from a mistake...understadable I suppose. But 21K soldiers are little more than additional 21K confused targets. These "indigenous" folks have been warring with the west and each other for centuries, and if images on TV say anything at all, it is that they will be for centuries more.

It's not like we didn't know this. W's own father said on TV when he refused to go after saddam in '91.

Al
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