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Re: [xmca] 'Summer reading' continued: "Are we Rome?"

From: Leif Strandberg <leifstrandberg.ab who-is-at telia.com>
Date: Wed Jul 25 2007 - 23:25:24 PDT

E

I think we are doing what we can to be a part of Rome ("Legtimate
peripheral participation" - see Swedish and Norwegian soliders in the
ISAF forces in Afghanistan)

I am waitng for a New Martin Luther

Leif
2007-07-25 kl. 13.46 skrev Eirik Knutsson:

> Leif, if America is Rome: who are we (Europeans) then? "Athenians"...
> now
> conquered by Rome... (?)
>
> E.
>
>
> On 2007-07-25, at 13:27, Leif Strandberg wrote:
>> No, but I have heard about it,
>>
>> and
>>
>> I listened to a radio programme the other day where the reporter
>> reminded me that Rome lasted for 800 years
>>
>> :-(
>>
>> Leif
>> Sweden
>> 2007-07-25 kl. 12.13 skrev Eirik Knutsson:
>>
>>>
>>> Has anybody out there read Cullen Murphy's "Are we Rome?" (Houghton
>>> Mifflin,
>>> 2007), in which contemporary Washington is compared with ancient
>>> Rome?
>>>
>>> E.
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