The rise and decline of great powers

[Spider]

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[The Dharma Bum]

[Spider]

OK. So. Other than sending our ill gotten paychecks back through time to Mesopotamia, and feeling really bad because we are living now as opposed to then...what is the practical application of that?

[eynon81]

[broken robot]

Non and spider: I don't think we're disagreeing. If you look back I was responding to a comment that made it appear as if "we" (???) did it all on our own. Clearly whatever the relative weight you attribute to slavery is irrelevant or dependent on some larger analysis (my understanding of us history begins and ends with high school). The point though is it was an important factor to the foundation of the country. I think we can all agree on that, right?

[spacemonkey]

America was pretty much built from every immigrint that managed to get here from day one. slaves and native Indians even had contributions. The decline of our empire was inevitible due to the concept of finite anyway. However the results of nafta just put it on the fast track to fail.

[The Dharma Bum]

[Spider]

Not to sound like a broken record man...but seriously. You really gotta realize that you can't transmute your opinions into facts simply by typing them into a web browser.

And honestly...who in the hell is on this site that thinks like you just described? Do you really believe anyone here thinks the Amerind peoples were "ignorant savages"?

For crying out loud...where do you get this crap? And why are you directing it at us? Its really offensive.