- The Belmont Club: why is it we're in the most peaceful world in recent history (recent, maybe since the Pax Romana?) ShrinkWrapped on the same report.
- Perfect elections, perfect baseball, and perfect ... ?
- Dr. Sanity and neo-neocon on this picture:
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
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Several things in the morning's blog reading on which I don't have anything new to say, but which address points made below:
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The Pax Romana wasn't all that peaceful. Read your Gibbons. There was pretty much a war for control of the empire every 2 or 3 years during that period; it just didn't happen to engulf the whole empire most of the time.
I love this quote: "History is what happens when the MSM is busy covering other news!"
The Pax Romana wasn't all that peaceful. .... There was pretty much a war for control of the empire every 2 or 3 years during that period; it just didn't happen to engulf the whole empire most of the time.
Doesn't sound like a bad analogy for recently.
Read your Gibbons.
Oh, Gods, there were two of them?
In my version there were three volumes; I have no idea how the original was published.
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