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Reply #25: Right answer. This was pointed out back when Bush started the Iraq War
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Thu Apr-22-10 03:53 PM
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25. Right answer. This was pointed out back when Bush started the Iraq War |
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to "spread democracy." Many scholars pointed out that this was exactly what the Athenian League "said" was its goal in invading Sicily. Indeed, Thucydides himself warns future generations against this folly in the opening paragraphs of "The History of the Peloponnesian War." And since Athens lost its democracy and its empire we should pay heed...
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