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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 07:05 PM
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Empire.... understand how others see it... how they fear it... how
they have been affected by it for years....

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Arundhati_Roy/Arundhati_Roy_page.html
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 07:15 PM
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1. Compare to Athens, America!
Read up on your Greek history, America! In 5th century bcc Athens lost its empire and its democracy (the first in world history, albeit flawed). It is in a book entitled, The History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides.

Thucydides lived through this disaster and wrote down its history for mankind to see. We MUST pay attention!
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getmeouttahere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 07:15 PM
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2. Thanks for this....I like this quote the best.....
"America continues to remain the enigma it has always been - a curiously insular people administered by a pathologically meddlesome, promiscuous government."
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