A comment on Michael Totten’s photographs of his trip to Libya. “What does it say about a country when the Roman Ruins look to be in better shape than ‘modern’ Tripoli.?”
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Very cool. I had no idea Tripoli was so sepulchral, but then it is on the other side of Ghaddafi’s Line of Death.
“What does it say about a country when the Roman Ruins look to be in better shape than ‘modern’ Tripoli.?”
As with Egypt, it shows that evolution doesn’t always mean progress.
Tinpot dictators like Mussolini and Khadafi think that the Roman Empire was great because of its army, but really it was great because of its economic freedom.
All of us should heed this lesson:
“… the fall of Rome was fundamentally due to economic deterioration resulting from excessive taxation, inflation, and over-regulation. Higher and higher taxes failed to raise additional revenues because wealthier taxpayers could evade such taxes while the middle class–and its taxpaying capacity–were exterminated.”
How Excessive Government Killed Ancient Rome
The pictures from the evacuated city and the Roman ruins would almost make Tripoli a small price to pay…