History repeats itself

Interesting that Joe Farah points out that Rome would pulverize and then “salt the soil” of “troublesome enemies.” He’s probably thinking of the Third Punic War (149-146 B.C.). In fact, modern historians dismiss the claim that Rome cursed and then salted the soil after destroying Carthage.

That inaccuracy aside, the comparison is eerily appropriate. In the Third Punic War a degnenerate political class in Rome whipped the people into a jingoistic frenzy, urging them to destroy Carthage utterly, even though by that point Carthage was a threat to no one, having already been smashed by Rome in the past. But Carthage was a terrible threat to Rome, you see, so it had to be attacked and destroyed. Maybe they, too, had an unmanned drone program.

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10:55 am on April 6, 2004