the length of a /topic is.
* tilly suspects that we are about to find out.'
Perhaps it is time to give Thanks that our wastrel Eli likely never read The Prince; even less likely, the Discourses.
BlackwaterUSA in New Orleans: Mercenaries or BoogieMan?
- (Another Scott)
- (12)
- Sept. 16, 2005, 11:04:55 AM EDT
Re: BlackwaterUSA in New Orleans: Mercenaries or BoogieMan
- (JayMehaffey)
- (11)
- Sept. 16, 2005, 11:31:08 AM EDT
One of the oldest of all political principles
- (jake123)
- (10)
- Sept. 16, 2005, 12:27:10 PM EDT
Not by my reading of Machiavelli
- (ben_tilly)
- (9)
- Sept. 16, 2005, 05:08:09 PM EDT
The Prince? Or The Prince and The Discourses?
- (jake123)
- (8)
- Sept. 16, 2005, 05:20:05 PM EDT
Both
- (ben_tilly)
- (7)
- Sept. 16, 2005, 07:40:00 PM EDT
Attentive LRPD: * tilly wonders what the upper limit on
- (Ashton)
- Sept. 16, 2005, 11:14:58 PM EDT
Mercs are useful to Princes
- (jake123)
- (5)
- Sept. 17, 2005, 04:47:22 AM EDT
Where does Machiavelli say that?
- (ben_tilly)
- (4)
- Sept. 17, 2005, 12:09:02 PM EDT
I agree
- (broomberg)
- Sept. 17, 2005, 12:18:44 PM EDT
Machievelli is often attributed to notions he didnt espouse
- (boxley)
- (2)
- Sept. 18, 2005, 11:19:34 AM EDT
(I wonder if we might be living in a world of Opposites..)
-NT
- (Ashton)
- Sept. 18, 2005, 06:53:42 PM EDT
And is more often misapplied.
- (Andrew Grygus)
- Sept. 18, 2005, 07:10:15 PM EDT