Is the US to go the way of the Roman Empire?

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Lancer
Ya right. The first step in the Rooskie plan to rule the world involves flushing yourself down the toilet.

What a bad response. Typical and expected, however.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Lancer
Ya right. The first step in the Rooskie plan to rule the world involves flushing yourself down the toilet.

It's to give the otherside a false sense of security.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by DinoDoc

It's to give the otherside a false sense of security.

The US shall make way for the ZhongGuo.

[Lancer]

DinoDoc, it's working...

Anyway, that demolished what little credibility Tass had left.

[Kramerman]

Re: Re: Is the US to go the way of the Roman Empire?

Originally posted by Tassadar5000


Hehe. Americans wont be great ANY time soon.

The predictable response of a jealous man...

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Lancer
DinoDoc, it's working...

Anyway, that demolished what little credibility Tass had left.

Your comments only serve to re-enforce what is already widely known about Americans

[Nubclear]

Re: Re: Re: Is the US to go the way of the Roman Empire?

Originally posted by Kramerman


The predictable response of a jealous man...

Jealous man? I'm not jealous...I get to watch while Americans shoot themselves in the foot.

Why would I be jealous of that?

[Boris Godunov]

If we are like Rome, then I wonder who will be the Visigoths? I suspect it must be the Mexicans. Or worse, Albertans.

[Ned]

Rome died of a bloated bureaucracy and entitlement programs that ruined its economy and made it increasingly difficult to raise enough money to pay for an army primarily composed barbarians because Roman citizens would no longer defend the empire.

Does this sound more like Europe or United States?

[Bereta_Eder]

The US was (is) no Roman Empire

[DinoDoc]

Boris: It may well be the Canadians! They've already sacked Washington, DC once.

[Lancer]

Did I say the US was/is a Roman empire?

Hell no...

We're a democracy, much better.

When Americans walked on the moon, no Roman footsteps were observed.

[Nubclear]

When the majority becomes a minority, your not in a democracy

[Ned]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
If we are like Rome, then I wonder who will be the Visigoths? I suspect it must be the Mexicans. Or worse, Albertans.

In a sense, Alaric and Osama bin Laden are similar.

[Bereta_Eder]

Actually some of the American analsysts like to compare the US with the old Athenian "empire" upon most of Greece.

However I think that in this instacne with Iraq the US is more like a young Rome where it proposed to south democratic Greeks (like Athens) to help them against the Illiryans (pirates) who messed up trade.

To conveince them and to try not to get them to allign with northern monarchic Greeks (Macedonians and Thebans) Rome said "we share common values such as democracy. There is a threat (Illyrians). Whoa re you going to trust if not those who share the same values as you? (and not the Macedonians and other Greeks which had monarchic governments).

So in that respect you're a bit like Rome