To quote Private Frazer in Dad’s Army, ‘We’re doomed, doomed!’ That seems to be the message of Paul Cooper’s eminently readable series of essays about how and why 14 civilisations rose to greatness and then collapsed. He begins with the Sumerians in the fourth millennium BC, at the northern tip of the Persian Gulf, and
Russia invaded Ukraine 11 months ago. That’s a blink of an eye when you consider the Hundred Years’ War, The Crusades, or China’s 289-year war with northern nomads.
where s sissy? where is she? you were so great. everyone is saying if you can do as well as sissy you ve done a good job. thank you. that is an amazing, i will tell you, my father used to take me, they called it the crusades. that was the crusades. it was a beautiful thing. but billy graham was amazing. i think is he 98 today? 98 years old, billy graham. really great. say hello to your family. billy graham is 98 years old. this is an amazing, truly one of the great great men. our failed political establishment has delivered nothing but poverty at home and disaster overseas. they get rich making america poor. it s time to reject a media and political elite that s bled our country dry.