tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36163616.post4570702971020453958..comments2023-11-03T07:24:36.624-05:00Comments on DemoKat: Who will build our wall?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36163616.post-7031118147043385712007-01-15T09:34:00.000-05:002007-01-15T09:34:00.000-05:00Thank you for the kind words about my post.
Also ...Thank you for the kind words about my post.<br /><br />Also (as I should have said earlier): Welcome to Three Bulls!<br /><br /><i>They knew when to draw the line on their empire.</i><br /><br />In order to draw such a line, we'd first have to admit we were engaged in an imperial war...<br /><br />The book I quoted in my post by Tom Holland covers the end of the Roman Republic -- the events that lead to the Julius Caesar ascent to power and to the real start of the empire under Augustus. The book came out in 2003 and, though the author is British, it was written with an eye to drawing out the parallels between Rome and modern America. I have found it quite excellent. If it interests you, I have quoted it in other posts also.<br /><br /><i>That is the lesson of Hadrian's wall.</i><br /><br />In the era talked about in Holland's book, another useful lesson is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carrhae">Crassus's military adventure</a> in what is now south-eastern Turkey. A quite distinct case of arrogant overreach while attacking an ill-understood foreign people leading to unmitigated military disaster. Plus, Crassus himself is a figure of Cheneyesque amorality.ploverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04394160970803074091noreply@blogger.com