Re: "The Only Thing They Learn" -- does anyone else find it irritating?

Mike stone schrieb:
The Romans, for their part, far outstripped the Barbarians in manpower and,
to begin with at least, in military efficiency. Unfortunately, the
conditions of the time made them unable or unwilling to _use_ more than a
fraction of the mapower theoretically available to them, while the
tecnological edge was apt to be a wasting asset, as the Barbs got better
informed. The current Mideast situation offers uncomfortable parallels. The
Western world has _vastly_ greater resources than any Third World society,
yet "all the king's horses and all the king's men" are struggling to pacify
just a couple of pipsqueak countries.

From this doesn't automatically follow that the rabble of those pipsqueak countries would be able to take over all the king's home countries.

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