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The Rise and Fall of the American Empire.
http://freerepublic.com ^ | November first, in the year of our lord 2014 | Frydenlund

Posted on 10/31/2014 5:20:43 PM PDT by Eurotwit

All empires fall. Rome... Persia... United Kingdom...

In the 1960's way way way before I was born. The American Empire sent a man to the moon.

30 years later...

America is dependent on Russian rockets to supply their own Astronauts.

All Empires fall.

It is the nature of society.

Where did America go wrong?


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1 posted on 10/31/2014 5:20:43 PM PDT by Eurotwit
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To: Eurotwit

***Where did America go wrong?***

Three letters. LBJ.


2 posted on 10/31/2014 5:27:26 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Eurotwit

To much lead in our pipes and paint.


3 posted on 10/31/2014 5:28:36 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Eurotwit

[Where did America go wrong?]

Isaiah 59 Social Injustice Is Condemned

59 The Lord hasn’t lost
his powerful strength;
he can still hear
and answer prayers.
2 Your sins are the roadblock
between you and your God.
That’s why he doesn’t answer
your prayers
or let you see his face.

3 Your talk is filled with lies
and plans for violence;
every finger on your hands
is covered with blood.
4 You falsely accuse others
and tell lies in court;
sin and trouble are the names
of your children.
5 You eat the deadly eggs
of poisonous snakes,
and more snakes crawl out
from the eggs left to hatch.
You weave spider webs,
6 but you can’t make clothes
with those webs
or hide behind them.

You’re sinful and brutal.
7 You hurry off to do wrong
or murder innocent victims.
All you think about is sin;
you leave ruin and destruction
wherever you go.
8 You don’t know how
to live in peace
or to be fair with others.
The roads you make are crooked;
your followers cannot find peace.
The People Confess Their Sins

9 No one has come to defend us
or to bring about justice.
We hoped for a day of sunshine,
but all we found
was a dark, gloomy night.
10 We feel our way along,
as if we were blind;
we stumble at noon,
as if it were night.
We can see no better
than someone dead.

11 We growl like bears
and mourn like doves.
We hope for justice and victory,
but they escape us.
12 How often have we sinned
and turned against you,
the Lord God?
Our sins condemn us!
We have done wrong.
13 We have rebelled and refused
to follow you.
Our hearts were deceitful,
and so we lied;
we planned to abuse others
and turn our backs on you.

14 Injustice is everywhere;
justice seems far away.
Truth is chased out of court;
honesty is shoved aside.
15 Everyone tells lies;
those who turn from crime
end up ruined.
The Lord Will Rescue His People

When the Lord noticed
that justice had disappeared,
he became very displeased.
16 It disgusted him even more
to learn
that no one
would do a thing about it.
So with his own powerful arm,
he won victories for truth.
17 Justice was the Lord’s armor;
saving power was his helmet;
anger and revenge
were his clothes.

18 Now the Lord will get furious
and do to his enemies,
both near and far,
what they did to his people.
19 He will attack like a flood
in a mighty windstorm.
Nations in the west and the east
will then honor and praise
his wonderful name.
20 The Lord has promised to rescue
the city of Zion
and Jacob’s descendants
who turn from sin.

21 The Lord says: “My people,
I promise to give you my Spirit
and my message.
These will be my gifts to you
and your families forever.
I, the Lord, have spoken.”


4 posted on 10/31/2014 5:29:44 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: Eurotwit

Electing the homo-Muslim-commie Obunghole.


5 posted on 10/31/2014 5:39:47 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

FDR


6 posted on 10/31/2014 5:43:22 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: Eurotwit

The more God faded from society, the more it crumbled.

I remember when the schools used to be disciplined and respectful places of learning - nobody worried about sending their kids there. When we kicked God out, we welcomed trouble.


7 posted on 10/31/2014 5:48:32 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Eurotwit

Empire?


8 posted on 10/31/2014 5:53:25 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Eurotwit

America has never been an empire.


9 posted on 10/31/2014 5:55:55 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Polling: The art of determining how badly the people have been duped by the last poll.)
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To: ansel12

Empire ?


The military industrial complex.

The spread of Capitalism around the globe.

Big Oil

Cocoa Cola

The desperate and destitute little Africans wearing last years “sports awareness T-Shirt”

That is our Empire !!!


10 posted on 10/31/2014 6:01:29 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Eurotwit

Getting pretty tired of the formulation “America is doomed because Rome”.


11 posted on 10/31/2014 6:05:11 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Eurotwit

America was never an Empire to begin with.


12 posted on 10/31/2014 6:15:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Well stated.


13 posted on 10/31/2014 6:16:05 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Eurotwit
"Where did America go wrong?"

By following the U.K.'s real rulers in the City (bankers, London).


14 posted on 10/31/2014 6:16:06 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Eurotwit

We weren’t Imperial until 2009.


15 posted on 10/31/2014 6:16:41 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I think you mean too.

:)


16 posted on 10/31/2014 6:22:06 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Yardstick

America, like Western Civilization itself, is a product of Greece and Rome sublimated by Biblical morality. Take away that morality and pagan Rome remains, doomed or not.


17 posted on 10/31/2014 6:28:51 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Zeneta

Coca Cola being a business and Tshirts makes me a citizen of an Empire, I see.


18 posted on 10/31/2014 6:30:27 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

School Prayer.

I remember. I was there. Then came the assassination of John Kennedy. Everything changed right then.


19 posted on 10/31/2014 6:31:16 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: EEGator

Damn lead!


20 posted on 10/31/2014 6:34:53 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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