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Offline Halberto
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Is the U.S. beginning to fall?
« on: November 15, 2002, 05:03:02 PM »
Looking back, it seems U.S. is in the same position Rome was in before it fell.

1) Barbarians kept attacking parts of the Roman Empire from more than just one place

The first thing that comes to my mind is Al Queda and all the Terrorism.

2) Rome\'s economy began to plummit and inflation occured

Need I say more?

3) Lack of loyalty and patriotism.

What is a country without those two?

4) Bad leadership.

We have Presidents getting head, congressmen having ties to a murder case etc...


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« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2002, 05:06:00 PM »
The pres. getting head is NOT a big deal.

Times are also wayyyyyyyyy to different to compare. I dont see it happening.
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« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2002, 05:06:11 PM »
Economic Recession is part of Capitalism. If you\'re basing your ideals on that, then the United States should have been gone by 1983. Was it? No.

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« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2002, 05:09:13 PM »
1) they got us once, maybe theyll get us twice, but i dont think itll kill everyone in the US

2)our economy isnt going into pesos er anything. Were doing fine IMO..weve had worse and worked out of it.

3) seems fine to me

4) Bush IMO is doing the right things. If we attack saddam, we could get a lot of people pissed off, but if we dont attack, saddam could blackmail someone pretty badly. And Clinton did fine as a president, he just couldnt keep his pants zipped.
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« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2002, 05:12:10 PM »
Saddam could blackmail someone? What are you talking about?
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« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2002, 05:13:10 PM »
if we dont attack him and make him get rid of nukes he probably has or will have, he could blackmail someone like israel.
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« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2002, 05:14:49 PM »
I\'m lost by the blackmail comment

what is your deffinition of blackmail?
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« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2002, 05:16:24 PM »
i dunno..heard it on CNN er something.....
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« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2002, 05:18:38 PM »
Puh-leeze. Isreal is MORE than capable..probably the best offense and defense next to ours. They do not hesitate to use force when threatend and also have nukes of their own.
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Re: Is the U.S. beginning to fall?
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2002, 05:23:40 PM »
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Originally posted by ViVi
1) Barbarians kept attacking parts of the Roman Empire from more than just one place


*Looks innocent* :shy:
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« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2002, 05:26:30 PM »
Saddam\'s threat are rather hollow.  If he attacked, Israel\'s retaliation would be swift and terrible.
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« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2002, 05:26:59 PM »
fastson, this has been buggin me for a while. Who is that in your sig? I know who..It just wont come to me.
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« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2002, 05:31:54 PM »
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fastson, this has been buggin me for a while. Who is that in your sig? I know who..It just wont come to me.


You mean the link in my sig? Thats Kaz Hirai speaking at this years E3.

Or do you mean my avatar (accidentally calling it sig?). That’s Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the revolutionary from Argentina (associated with Fidel Castro and Cuba)
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« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2002, 05:37:24 PM »
bingo!! (and yea..avatar :D )
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« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2002, 07:08:22 PM »
Hah.. so easily people forget that were once worse times. Just 13 years ago we were faced with all of those problems and so much more... including a very present communist threat. This doesn\'t mean the end of America.. just the end of the times you were growing up in.
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