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Re: US EMpire Better than Alternative - Huh?
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- Subject: Re: US EMpire Better than Alternative - Huh?
- From: raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:44:38 -0800
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On Jan 11, 2008 2:25 PM, Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> that's a new one! one possible response: power corrupts. Look at what
> happened to the Roman Republic when it became an Empire. It may have
> started out pretty good, but it became totally corrupt and disgusting.
> That may not be totally accurate history-wise, but it may have some
> resonance.
Are you comfortable with this as a teacher i.e. using one
oversimplified historical argument against another?
-raghu.
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