Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Millinia Lost
Temples and institutions of empire crumbling and useful only to tourists and professors of antiquity remember their past while mulling their bleak future.
Caesars and senators, gladiators and soldiers marched here, but are seldom revived on the parchments of the past, unless they be heroes or villains, men of great wisdom, or men of conquest.
Their message is clear: you too can fall. You too can overreach, become complaisant, fat, and lazy, lose the warrior's edge, and the courage in battle that marked your glory.
Be on guard for the heathens that snoop at your gates, attack your fartherest outposts, and still have the hunger for power and glory and empire that you have lost.
Sic transit gloria!
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In Judea during the occupation of the roman empire there was little kids throwing stones at the warriors and suicid daggers killing them.
Minds of the people did not change 20 centuries later.
Minds of the people did not change 20 centuries later.
Was true in China also, where occupations were rampant for many millenia.
Children, however, are a breed apart. Most of them know that warriors tend to give them a lot of leeway, so they do their thing and usually get away with it.
Seems the real conflict in Iraq now is against foreigners who came to die, mostly Saudis. We have assiduously avoided the body-count syndrome this time, but the number of insurgents that have lost their lives must be horrific.
Children, however, are a breed apart. Most of them know that warriors tend to give them a lot of leeway, so they do their thing and usually get away with it.
Seems the real conflict in Iraq now is against foreigners who came to die, mostly Saudis. We have assiduously avoided the body-count syndrome this time, but the number of insurgents that have lost their lives must be horrific.
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