RE: The Rehabilitation of President Richard M. Nixon
September 24, 2022 at 2:18 pm
(This post was last modified: September 24, 2022 at 2:32 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(September 24, 2022 at 12:55 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(September 24, 2022 at 11:55 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: The Roman republic avoided civil war for its first 370 years, about 130 years longer than the United States had existed, much less the 4 score and five the US actually manage open civil war.
United has been turning into an empire as soon as the rival superpower fell leaving the US in hegemonic position. It took Rome 80 year from gaining hegemonic power over Mediterranean world to her first civil war on the path to toppling traditional Republican distributed power structure, and 170 years before the transition to monarchical empire is complete. United States is also bidding fair to both it in less.
Time will tell, I suppose. Here is a list of the Roman civil wars & revolts:
Wikipedia -- List of Roman civil wars and revolts
In terms of per capita loss of life, I think that we have done better. But, again, time will tell.
the 3rd century BC roman civil wars listed there these grossly stretch the definition of Civil War. applying the same definition to American history would see suppression of native americans as one long civil war, and suppressing philippine rebels at the turn of 20th century as another civil war, fighting the vietcong and insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan arguable would also qualify as yet more civil wars.
again, Americans are commonly indoctrinated to turn vastly more critical eyes on everyone else than they would allow to be seen with themselves in ordee to sustain a delusion of American exceptionalism.