Date: Saturday, 1 March 1986 10:40-EST
From: ihnp4!abnji!nyssa at seismo.CSS.GOV
To: arms-d at mit-mc.arpa
Re: History
>On Sunday, ABC aired a program [...] in which the point was made that the
>US was the first world power that never wanted to be a world power, that
>in fact if world domination was our plan, we could have accomplished it
>after WWII. Instead [...] we instituted the Marshall Plan.
Come now, we're not the only ones who ever refrained from conquest.
In the 2nd Macedonian war the Romans under T. Quinctius Flaminus came to
the aid of the Greeks (esp. Rhodes, Pergamum, Athens) against Philip V,
who was asserting Macedonian hegemony. Flaminus declared the independence
of Greece cities and the Romans withdrew in 194 BC. (In 148, after the 3rd
Macedonian war, Macedonia became a Roman province.)
Going back somewhat further, the Delian League was formed by Athens (inc.
Aristeides "the Just") as a free and equal association against the Persians
in 477 BC. This became the basis for the Athenian empire, destroyed in the
Poloponnesian War.
In our time, the Soviets like to point out that they have withdrawn their
forces from Austria and Finland.
*** This was sent to me from burl!icase!xanth!uvacs!mac (Alex Colvin) ***
James
From: ihnp4!abnji!nyssa at seismo.CSS.GOV
To: arms-d at mit-mc.arpa
Re: History
>On Sunday, ABC aired a program [...] in which the point was made that the
>US was the first world power that never wanted to be a world power, that
>in fact if world domination was our plan, we could have accomplished it
>after WWII. Instead [...] we instituted the Marshall Plan.
Come now, we're not the only ones who ever refrained from conquest.
In the 2nd Macedonian war the Romans under T. Quinctius Flaminus came to
the aid of the Greeks (esp. Rhodes, Pergamum, Athens) against Philip V,
who was asserting Macedonian hegemony. Flaminus declared the independence
of Greece cities and the Romans withdrew in 194 BC. (In 148, after the 3rd
Macedonian war, Macedonia became a Roman province.)
Going back somewhat further, the Delian League was formed by Athens (inc.
Aristeides "the Just") as a free and equal association against the Persians
in 477 BC. This became the basis for the Athenian empire, destroyed in the
Poloponnesian War.
In our time, the Soviets like to point out that they have withdrawn their
forces from Austria and Finland.
*** This was sent to me from burl!icase!xanth!uvacs!mac (Alex Colvin) ***
James
