August 21st, 2003, 08:47 PM
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Re: OT:US don\'t qualify for EU membership, don\'t spank children, WW2 history.
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Originally posted by Loser:
...Unfortunately Napoleon, like Alexander and Hitler, did not have that so-necessary skill of empire-building: restraint. Take-and-hold or take-and-take-and-lose-and-lose-and-lose. Few warlords have both the patience necessary to do this and the initiative to take over the world, though. Genghis Khan had it, who else?
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Roman Empire should give plenty examples, I think. It was the most impressive Empire building in human history IMO.
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