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To: Kid Rock who wrote (25676)	10/25/1998 5:08:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Thomas, It is possible to interpret history in that way, and to support your contention with arguable logic. It is also possible to interpret history in a number of other ways, each with it own arguments, reasonably good ones as well. The choice of interprative modes tells us a great deal more about the person making the choice than it does about history. Steve

To: Kid Rock who wrote (25676)	10/26/1998 12:06:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

Wow. What a thought to open up a Monday morning with. I think this guy has a way of making faulty logic sound good. Back when technology was such that five guys in a village could make all necessary arms&armor - the idea that the meanest sunzabitches in the valley were Kings might have made sense. But the price of empire always has been a race with the clock. Even Egypt fell. The advent of Rome changed everything. Here was an empire which was no longer built on the premise of wiping out the enemy - no, the approach was much subtler and in its own way stronger. Make the enemy a part of you. The Roman Empire held its own against some really resolute predator cultures. Predator cultures were once again important for a millennium between cultural summers. But there were always redoubts against complete lawlessness and/or rule by sword. So - absent a spasm war which will knock our collective toches back a coupla thousand years - I see such an "asymmetrical" approach as not just morally yucky, but operationally unsound. As long as there is a strong "civilized" society on this planet, it will be mobilized to thoroughly interdict a government which arrogates unto itself such an imperial role. I daresay that's what the European branch of WWII was all about. And that short mustache guy was a softie compared to the mil intel loon who wrote that stirring tract.