Posted on 06/22/2017 5:13:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Yes, and the average person who had completed even 8 years of schooling in the US would have had a familiarity with the culture and the history of ancient Rome and ancient Greece.
So sad to see what we have lost.
If the US survives as a Republic, it will largely be Trump’s doing.
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Yes, with God’s help.
I'm afraid they won't get much out of him, even if they do dig him up.
All of what you say has some truth to it.
Yet all of it ignores the nature of the regime in China, how THAT also helps drive who China is TODAY and how it WILL ACT, and WHY - because it is a dictatorship. We have plenty of history, world history, of the behaviors of dictators BECAUSE they ate dictators and how we must act because of that.
Leaving ALL of that out of the equation, and understanding, about China, and pretending China is totally synonymous with some ancient situation will lead to either conflict we don’t need or capitulation in matters we should not capitulate.
It sums up as actually a RINO view that suggests just leave China be China and everything will be fine. It won’t.
Patton was the same.
He left an 8-track tape.
“Eeyew, history is so, like, last yee-are.”
I have a number of problems with the “Thucydides Trap”, but the largest is that Athens wasn’t an “emerging power” prior to the Peloponnesian War, it was an established power, therefore Spartan opposition to Athens didn’t come about during the Athenian rise, but subsequent to it.
OTOH, it seems to me that in the face of Athenian expansion, Sparta was the declining power, which may have motivated Spartan adventurism. The war itself was won by Sparta more from Athenian mistakes than any specific Spartan strategic vision.
So if there’s any lesson it would be that the dangers facing the US come from weakness and not strength, a lesson was better directed at Obama, not Trump.
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