--- Damon Agretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah. Rich is right. Did some research. The Social War > was in the 90's. I was thinking of some of the > conflicts between the Plebes and the Patricians > (which > didn't amount to armed warfare, so it would seem, or > at least not in the same vein as the Roman Civil > Wars). Nonetheless I couldn't immediately find any > Roman-on-Roman armed conflicts before the Late > Republic...
Wasn't that the time that led into the Gracci and then Spartacus? Oh, read what conservative columnist Thomas Friedman (long a darling of the right) wrote at: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/14/opinion/14friedman.html?hp "I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I hear the president and vice president slamming John Kerry for saying that he hopes America can eventually get back to a place where "terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance." The idea that President Bush and Mr. Cheney would declare such a statement to be proof that Mr. Kerry is unfit to lead actually says more about them than Mr. Kerry. Excuse me, I don't know about you, but I dream of going back to the days when terrorism was just a nuisance in our lives." _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
