Reply #8: Also, one only needs to read the New Testament of the Bible

[Cleita]

to find a parallel to the invasion and occupation of Iraq by our Country. In this case the New Testament takes place in the time the Romans occupied much of the world including that part of the Middle East they called Palestine. There were constant attacks from insurgents or cells of revolutionaries who attacked Romans, other tribes and those Jews who were Roman sycophants.

This is why the Romans and the pharisees feared Jesus. They felt he could turn the rabble against them and lose control of the place not to mention their lives. This is where the whole questioning about whether he claimed to be King of the Jews came about. This was what Masada was about in the century that followed.

I guess we are the new Roman Empire. The Pax Romana, which brought peace to the world for the while at the point of a sword and brutal subjugation is the same Pax Americana that the PNAC want to repeat with America as the new Rome. It seems Ostia was their their Reichstag and their 9/11.