random thought of the moment:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
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September 14th, 2004 by Funky Dung
Father Jim Tucker, of Dappled Things, links to an interesting article about comparing modern Europe to the Roman Empire.
“A lot of ink has been spilled and hands have been wrung over how the American Republic has become something of an empire after the Roman model, although I think the case is overstated.”
I thought this relevant due to a lengthy thread about just this topic in the comments to another post of mine.
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