[Fwd: Iraq Dispatches: Inside Abu Hanifa mosque during attack]

[Lan Barnes]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:18:34PM -0800, James E. Henderson wrote:
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> Lan Barnes wrote:
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> For the time, place and circumstances, the Roman Empire was a good 
> solution to the developing conditions. As such, I would call it a Good 
> Idea ... but conditions have changed, making it no longer workable.
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I couldn't describe the system that brought forth Nero, Commodus,
Caligula, and Elagebalus a "good solution", but maybe that's just me.

> It isn't just communications, either. Rapid transportation has brought 
> back the possibility of widespread disease killing off the race before 
> we can control it. Avian flu is just a warning shot. My son accuses me 
> of being isolationist but I believe we are underestimating a very real 
> danger. We have to develop regional independence at the same time we 
> develop our world-wide community.
> 

You're hardly an isolationist!

Maybe our expectations of unfettered rapid transportating need review. 

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