PantherNesmith said:

Sweet, sweet alcohol, please take the pain of watching my government mishandle everything away.

PointBlank said:

Clearly you've never tried to steal an Orange Julius at the Dedham Mall.

Nessuno said:

I thought about this before too, and you're missing a couple of other comparisons.

Latinos = Barbarians is an interesting and important one. I say this as a latino. Towards decline of Rome, it's citizens went less and less into the army. So, the army recruited soldiers from the barbarians. The barbarians rose fast and Rome even saw ranked military officials who were barbarians. Some barbarians were offered the chance to come and live in the Roman Empire if they fought, though I'm not sure if they were offered citizenship though. Now we see the army recruiting latinos to help with abysmally bad recruitment.

Rome faltered when they could no longer expand north, south, east or west, due to the stagnation. The nation also saw a minority elite gain even more power then they had before, hence majority tyranny. The Federalists foresaw this problem for the US and suggested constant expansion, of course the US cannot expand indefinitely or infinitely.

we3_pirate said:
Words can't even describe how ill these mercenary stories make me feel.

Nessuno said:

I thought about this before too, and you're missing a couple of other comparisons.

Latinos = Barbarians is an interesting and important one. I say this as a latino. Towards decline of Rome, it's citizens went less and less into the army. So, the army recruited soldiers from the barbarians. The barbarians rose fast and Rome even saw ranked military officials who were barbarians. Some barbarians were offered the chance to come and live in the Roman Empire if they fought, though I'm not sure if they were offered citizenship though. Now we see the army recruiting latinos to help with abysmally bad recruitment.

Rome faltered when they could no longer expand north, south, east or west, due to the stagnation. The nation also saw a minority elite gain even more power then they had before, hence majority tyranny. The Federalists foresaw this problem for the US and suggested constant expansion, of course the US cannot expand indefinitely or infinitely.

Nessuno said:

I thought about this before too, and you're missing a couple of other comparisons.

Latinos = Barbarians is an interesting and important one. I say this as a latino. Towards decline of Rome, it's citizens went less and less into the army. So, the army recruited soldiers from the barbarians. The barbarians rose fast and Rome even saw ranked military officials who were barbarians. Some barbarians were offered the chance to come and live in the Roman Empire if they fought, though I'm not sure if they were offered citizenship though. Now we see the army recruiting latinos to help with abysmally bad recruitment.

Rome faltered when they could no longer expand north, south, east or west, due to the stagnation. The nation also saw a minority elite gain even more power then they had before, hence majority tyranny. The Federalists foresaw this problem for the US and suggested constant expansion, of course the US cannot expand indefinitely or infinitely.

Zarth said:

You know, I selected Late Republican rather than Imperial Rome as a historical analogy for a reason. Bush is less like Caligula than he is like, say, Servius Sulpicis Galba, and drawing an analogy of Latinos to "barbarians" is as absurd as it is offensive.

When I see Latinos talking realistically about dismembering the United States (the way, for instance, Ron Paul would), I'll start treating talk like that more seriously.

vaporeyes said:
Doesn't the Mexican "Raza" agenda called "Plan of San Diego" And La Reconquista ?

From what I know those they talk of the exact things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VSDiiRJMcg

If you have lived in LA and seen the Billboards claiming "LA is Mexico" then you know there are people who have started doing exactly that.

http://www.vdare.com/Sailer/060129_sandiego.htm

Zarth sad:
. . . Latinos talking realistically about dismembering the United States . . .

PsylentNemo said:
While I cannot speak to the actions of what has been accused, or what ammouts to a crap ton of "he said/she said," do you all really honestly believe that there are large groups of people in Iraq killing and threatening other people, completely unprovoked? You really think that the government hired people so stone cold that they kill with no remorse?

I know a lot of these people. A lot of these people are good friends of mine, to include people that I served with in the military when we were there for it from the get go. These people are loving, carring people, that more often than not, would rather sit around and drink chai and make jokes with Iraqis, rather than shoot at them. They are also intellegent people (we don't just let anyone carry a gun over there) the at the first sign of mental instability would be stripped of all weapons and forced back to a forward opperating base until the can rotate back to the world.

Don't believe me? Think I'm coming to their aid cause I'm a "right-wing gun nut type asshole". Fuck you. I'm a man that did a job, and did it to the best of my ability, without ever compromising my morals or ethics. Before you sit there in your comfy chair and whine and bitch about how terrible these people are, go over there and get shot at for a few months. Get blown up a couple of times. Then sit there and tell me that these men and women are unjustified in defending themselves.