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To: koan who wrote (750968)	11/3/2013 12:26:36 AM
From: Bilow	2 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 TideGlider Read Replies (2) of 1577893

Hi koan; It's like you know nothing at all about history. Re: "The barbarians destroyed the ancient Greeks march toward civilization and it took nearly 2,000 years to get back to where they were. Had they not been destroyed we would be a 1,000 years ahead of whre we are today, IMO." The Greek democracies were not destroyed by barbarians. You have it reversed. Alexander the Great (a Greek) used the Greek technology of warfare (which the US military calls modern warfare or "the Western way of war" where one fights with the objective of conclusively annihilating the enemy rather than just winning a battle) to conquer the known world. Alexander destroyed the Persians, the Egyptians and the Indians and replaced them with military dictatorships. And far more Greeks died under Alexanders' rule than died due to the earlier invasions of Greece by the Persians. The Greeks destroyed their own civilization. They were eventually conquered by Rome which used, naturally, the way of war invented by the Greeks. You might find the US military websites that talk about this of interest: privatelee.com -- Carl P.S. And who do you think taught Alexander the Great? It was Aristotle who taught him and Aristotle is again in the line of Socrates and Plato. These were not liberal educators. They were right-wing conservatives and the pupil they educated (like the ones that tried to destroy democracy at Athens) was anti-democratic.

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