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Originally Posted by Heimdallr
Recruiting foreign mercenaries for military service in exchange for citizenship is exactly what another decaying empire did some 1600 years ago: Rome...
Seems appropriate that the USA, a nation founded on the Greco-Roman model of government (the republic), would also experience the same fate as did Rome... And it's unfolding before our very eyes...
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That's rich. It is like comparing Idi Amin Dada to Cicero!
Rome built and spread Civilization before going decadent. The U.S. pretended to belong and was barbarism and decadence since day one.
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"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
-- Oscar Wilde --
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