Quote Originally Posted by Tom Odom View Post
I would tend to agree but with a caveat; you have to know what you are doing as you do it. Otherwise you will simply be reacting to events, as we did for too long in OIF.

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Tom


So many of the aspects of everything brought out in the discussion are true and have been a part of what has added to the overall complexity of all our current struggles.

Lack of assimilation is something which has not only harmed our percieved sovereignty but due to the volume of illegal immigrants it has affected all portions of our political elements in efforts to get the recognition for letting it be ok.

The Roman empire was amazing in that it went through so many different types of difficulties ranging from internal political subterfuge, to client countries turning against it for every reason from religion to liberality.

Always at the forefront of any successful leader was a recognition of the need to address economic, social, and moral issues at hand. Generally this meant that about twice every generation taxes and debts would be forgiven, military would recieve land allocations and beautification projects would emerge.