Is U.S. going the way of Rome? National discontent stems partly from government's control

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 7/14/07 | Star Parker

[monkapotamus]

Jim Rome?

[Darkwolf377]

By the time we exited Vietnam, we had lost more than 50,000 of our soldiers.

I've read that we COULD have lost up toi 50,000 people in the WTC if the attack happened in the mid-afternoon.

If that happened, I'm thinking the 3000 we've lost in Iraq would not be considered such a high loss, and people would feel just fine about our involvment there.

Instead, we made so much about losing 3000 on 9-11, as we should, and here we've lost another 3000, through our own action.

[HiTech RedNeck]

One thing Americans have done over the years is turn more and more of their lives over to others to control. This is reflected in the growth of government.

It is better to trust in the Lord than to trust in princes

[Dustbunny]

Is U.S. going the way of Rome?

That is a question that I have asked many times.

The Decline and Fall of the USA

thanks to the Liberal/Socialist/Marxist/Progressives that are in government.

[Alberta's Child]

If we had lost 50,000 people on 9/11, the president would have been impeached within a week unless he turned every Islamic capital in the Middle East into smoking ruins.

Actually, if you had told people on 9/12/01 that within the next 6 years the U.S. would lose 3,000+ troops in a war whose only purpose was to establish and prop up a dysfunctional government in Iraq -- under which Islam is enshrined as the official state religion, mind you -- I bet no more than a handful of them ever would have believed you.

[Darkwolf377]

Actually, if you had told people on 9/12/01 that within the next 6 years the U.S. would lose 3,000+ troops in a war whose only purpose was to establish and prop up a dysfunctional government in Iraq -- under which Islam is enshrined as the official state religion, mind you -- I bet no more than a handful of them ever would have believed you.

This place is being overrun by wackjobs.

[dakine]

Come now...Oil, it is about oil...

[Doohickey]

17-29 year olds are angry because they feel guilty. They're ashamed that thier contemporaries are the tip of the spear in Iraq and Afghanistan but they can't muster the fortitude to risk everything for their country.

[TonyM]

Yes! Nothing short of a full scale conservative revolution can save this nation now.

[Alberta's Child]

Hey, we can even take it one step further. Let's see what the end result of all this nonsense has been . . .

1. Iraq's Ba'athist government overthrown
2. Saddam Hussein executed
3. A new Shi'ite-dominated government in place in Iraq
4. The U.S. utterly incapable of mounting a serious military campaign anywhere in the Middle East
5. The ruling party in the U.S. government thrown out of office, to be replaced by elected officials who are basically avowed Communists
6. Iran's biggest export (oil) trading at historic high prices
7. (As a result of #6) Iran's nuclear program accelerated to a point far beyond anything they could have imagined.

If you had told me back in 2002 that this is what would transpire over the next five years, I'd swear there had to be an agent of the Iranian government sitting in the White House.

[Darkwolf377]

If you had told me back in 2002 that this is what would transpire over the next five years, I'd swear there had to be an agent of the Iranian government sitting in the White House.

I'm guessing you're a Tancredo supporter.

[Alberta's Child]

Uh, no.

[Dutch Boy]

That is an interesting comment. When I attend high school graduations I see a fairly large number of kids going directly into the military. I’ve seen kids turn down scholarships to join the military. Others have no concept of world events that exist outside of their bubble. Some worry about everything. Luckily that is a small group.

When I talk to my kids friends about Iraq it is barely on their radar. They rarely think about it.

[Savage Beast]

Right on target! It astounds the rational mind that millions of Amereicans want to INCREASE the size, reach, power, and appetite of the Frankenstein's monster known as the Federal Government. This means increasing the number of burocrats who control and subjugate everyone else.

It's madness. It's choosing masters, a priveleged class, to overpower you.

Yet millions are in overdrive working for bigger and bigger government--a bigger, more powerful class of masters--a bigger army of parasites.

[LibLieSlayer]

“Is U.S. going the way of Rome? National discontent stems partly from government’s control”

No, but we may end up fighting another Civil War... and the Conservative side will NOT be the side eventually wearing bhurkas.

LLS

[EverOnward]

"I'm guessing you're a Tancredo supporter."

Is that to infer, Tancredo is a patriotic conservative who loves his country and its citizens, wants to protect the US and would take the oath of office seriously?

[PzLdr]

If we were Rome, Fallujah would be covered in salt, Osama would have been hanging from a cross in a pig skin [or everybody who didn’t flip him in would], the world would be looking at at least several centuries of peace, and the entrance to the State Department would be inscribed with “ODERINT DUM METUANT”.

[MamaTexan]

One thing Americans have done over the years is turn more and more of their lives over to others to control. This is reflected in the growth of government.

I call BS!

Americans haven't 'turned over' anything. The control that was lost was stripped from us without so much as a by-your-leave by the nannystaters.

And yes, since our country's laws and government were patterned after that of Rome, it would be logical to assume America would suffer the same fate.

[WashingtonSource]

Why would young people disillusioned with government control over our lives support Obama? This is insane logic.