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To: benwood who wrote (230683)	3/24/2003 2:15:32 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Ben, I'm surprised to hear he's still alive. I don't understand what he was saying about North Africa and the Romans. They attacked North Africa about 9 times over their 1600 years as a world power. The first 3 times were against the Carthaginians, and the first two were hardly an exercise to give the soldiers a job. Carthage was a huge threat and nearly conquered Rome under Hannibal. He could be thinking of the 3rd war with Carthage, when it was just a shell and the Senator Cato started every speech with "Carthage must be destroyed." When Justinian dismantled The Vandal Kingdom in Northern Africa during the mid-500s, that was also not busy work. The Vandals had sacked Rome and stole a bunch of Roman territories. Maybe he's talking about Mussolini and Ethiopia, where his point would be well taken.