Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: BrownTown
EVERY civilization comes to an end after some amount of time. If you want to commpare us to Rome than note that the "pax romana" lasted 200 years, and so far the US has only been the dominant country for 60 years, so if we follow Romes example youll be dead well before it comes back to bite us in the ass.
I'll add that the Pax Romana, Ottoman & Austo-Hungarian Empires lacked the geogarphical isolation we enjoy. When they became weak their "neighbors" moved in and sacked their empires.
So, notwithstanding the Canadians & Mexicans, it's unlikely if not nearly impossible that we'll be attacked by neighboring states/hordes/barbarians ro suffer any foreign occupation etc.
But yeah, given all the Repub/Dem bickering etc, we're weakening/destroying ourselves about as fast as possible. We'd rather fight each other than any enemy we may have.
Fern