From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 1/17/26 08:29, Don wrote:   
   > Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>> Reading a book on the early history of Mesopotamia just made me sad.   
   >>> The first city-states in the world, the beginnings of civilization,   
   >>> and they spent centuries warring against each other. Time after time,   
   >>> a strong king would arise who unified a bunch of them into something   
   >>> resembling the beginnings of empire and some kind of peace within its   
   >>> borders, only for it to fall to bits again after his death, and   
   >>> everybody to go back to warring against each other again.   
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   >> Sadly, this is the story of so many places.  China is one of the most   
   >> fascinating.   
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   > Europe's existential "Forever War" hits closer to home for me:   
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   > Wars and rumors of war are foretold by Saint Matthew the Apostle.   
      
   	He must have read some history.   
      
      
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   > telltale tall tail /,   _.. \   _\  (`._ ,.        veritas liberabit vos   
   > tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'    Make 1984 fiction again.   
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