Op-Ed Columnist: Are We Rome? Tu Betchus!
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12dowd.html?par... ![[link]](http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/images/public/icons/external-link2.png){kind=icon}
The decline and fall of the American Empire echoes the experience of the Romans, who also tumbled into the trap of becoming overleveraged empire hussies.
