English is the new Latin. In Europe until recently all educated people learned Latin and addressed each other with Latin as the default tongue. Today, despite grumblings, the one language most educated people around the world know the most of is English.
We have all heard the comparison of how America is going down and how Rome went down a thousand times. People DO love to be depressed! But there are a lot of parallels.
Another parallel is the fighting inthe Middle East. In exactly the same places where Middle Easterners got smashed by Rome, Middle Easterners are getting smashed by Amerians, and for exactly the same reason.
In Roman times, they could kill off occupying Roman troops one by one or in a surprise attack, but once the battle was joined, the largst possible army of Easterners could not face a Roman legion.
Front-to-front, the Arabs in Iraq don’t stand a chance against Americans, and American casualties are probably about zero.
I watch those well-trained American soldiers moving into position at a slow jog, and then the other soldier moves into his position at the same pace. Then the other one moves to his point position.
It reminds me of the Roman legions. All the shouting and tooth-gnashing in the world is hopeless against a steady trained force like that.
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