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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (747928)	8/17/2006 10:31:18 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

tho i doubt we will extinct the human race, we are incredibly naive to think that our civilization can not and will not be replaced...as were the incas, aztecs, roman empire, ancient egypt under the pharoahs, ancient greece, etc...no doubt the people in those days thought their civilizations would last forever ...we have too many rights in western civilization now...people think they have the right to do almost ANYTHING...there is no such thing as treason or personal accountability any more it seems, etc...and we have become weak to do what is necessary, a paper tiger...we talk about how far we have progressed, and while we have in many ways, we are a decaying democracy, just look to europe for the future of america...global democracy is a relatively new concept in the big scheme of things, and if we keep going the way we are (which i expect we will), then we will continue to decay from within ..."At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. -- Abraham Lincoln, January 27, 1838 - Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois