01-20-2011, 11:44 AM
Hhh...mm..mmm....I'm not sure the 'thank you' has quite the same nuances as the old 'laudes' system - it seems a little 'watered down' in that it expresses "thanks" rather than recognition of a good post.
Paul B's post surely adds some good clarification and definition that helps 'focus' this discussion, and his analogies with Sparta have a good resonance, in drawing parallels between 'indigenous populations', with Greece as the world, the Peloponnese as the Americas, and intervention where Sparta/USA's 'particular strategic/economic interests' are concerned. Where the analogy breaks down is that the USA's interest in the Middle East is fundamental to the point of survival, whereas Sparta's interest in the 'battle of resources/economics' between Corinth and Athens was peripheral at best.......
Sparta's intervention was therefore nowhere near to her own interests as the USA's.....
Paul B's post surely adds some good clarification and definition that helps 'focus' this discussion, and his analogies with Sparta have a good resonance, in drawing parallels between 'indigenous populations', with Greece as the world, the Peloponnese as the Americas, and intervention where Sparta/USA's 'particular strategic/economic interests' are concerned. Where the analogy breaks down is that the USA's interest in the Middle East is fundamental to the point of survival, whereas Sparta's interest in the 'battle of resources/economics' between Corinth and Athens was peripheral at best.......
Sparta's intervention was therefore nowhere near to her own interests as the USA's.....
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
