[ShandaLear]

I would do what it took to save their lives with the hope that in time the present situation would change. History teaches us that nothing is forever.

[gridlock]

I would much rather fight the forces that seek to enslave them while these forces might still be defeated. Wouldn't you?

[Shalom Israel]

I would do what it took to save their lives with the hope that in time the present situation would change. History teaches us that nothing is forever.

That is precisely how Rome went from a (mostly) free republic, to an empire, to a kingdom, to a disunited Europe.