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The Fall of Rome?http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9398000/9398261.stm
Do you seriously think you are are going to get objective analysis from the BBC? I like this one “Francis Fukuyama, one of the US's great thinkers”; I don't think I would go so far as to call Fukuyama one of our greatest thinkers. His claim to fame, the article about the “end of History” has proven to be wrong in just about every aspect.I do agree with the ending of the article that the US is not in a terminal decline. However, I also think it will take a very large, if not monumental act of collective will on our part to reform our present system.
Rome started as a city-state, then a kingdom, a republic and an empire; finally the city of Rome itself wasn't what it was before : the centre of the world (Roma caput mundi) but other cities became as important as Rome ( Ravenna, Napoli and others) I think that a parallel can be made about Western civilization: not about one country in particular but as a whole set of values, religion and political systems. So when ppl are trying to compare a country to Rome, it's irrelevant. What are the US of A all alone (same for any western countries) ?
