[nopardons]

Tsk, tsk tsk, little supercilious newbie. I've read Pliny, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Ovid and many others ... in Latin. I long ago read Gibbon, Van Loon, Suetonius, Plutarch and a host of other historians ; probably before you got out of diapers. You need a reread of the Punic Wars ; instead of continually watching Mel Brook's " HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART II " so often. : - )

You have a new date of membership, but perhaps you're just an " oldie " , who's been banned. Keep up the childish personal insults, and you'll be so again.

None of this; however , has anything at all to do with the thread's topic and your shilling for terrorists, misuse of the English language, or abject lack of understansing about what it will take to defeat enemies. So, unless you are capable of better debate, spare us all your sophestry. Oh, and by the by, you left out forces air heat, an almost modern flush lav, and an unheard of religious tolerance, as Roman accomplishments and introductions to barbaric soceties.