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“Protection. Conservation. Restriction. Deep ecology. Give me deep technology any day. They don't scare me. "I'm damned if I'll crawl, my children's children crawl on the earth in some kind a fuckin' harmony with the environment. Yeah, till the next ice age or the next asteroid impact." (Moh Kohn, The Star Fraction)/ "This is the fight between God and the Devil. If His Grace is with God, he must join me, if he is for the Devil he must fight me. There is no third way" King Gustavus Adolphus

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Thursday, August 25, 2005

History



Bush should look at what happened to Marcus Licinius Crassus who was desperate to add military glory to his wealth and influence so he decided to pick a fight with the Parthian Empire which used to ecompass all of modern Iran, Iraq and Armenia, parts of Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, and, for brief periods, territories in Pakistan and Syria.

Big mistake, ended up losing at the Battle of Carrhae where the final figures for the Roman Republic's defeat was 4,000 wounded, 20,000 dead, 10,000 captured.

Crassus head was sent to the Parthian king Orodes II

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