September 11, 2001, is frequently compared to December 7, 1941, as a day that will "live in infamy." But a more appropriate analogy might be August 24, 410, when the city of Rome was besieged and pillaged by an army of 40,000 "barbarians" led by the Osama bin Laden of late antiquity, a wily warrior named Alaric.
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This is a wonderful link. Thanks for pointing me to it. Liberal or conservative, partisan or apolitical, we musn't put our faith in anything other than Jesus Christ.
A wonderful follow up to this article is Thomas Cahill's book "How The Irish Saved Civilitization."
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