Learn From The Romans: You Cannot Welcome Armed, Unassimilated Enemies

The Romans threw away a thousand years of history, disintegrating in a century, and European and American leaders are rushing to do the same. In the Louvre, there’s a famous painting by the French Artist Jacques-Louis David depicting the Intervention of the Sabine Women. In it, the Sabine men, whose daughters were stolen by and then married to Romans in the mid-8th century BC, returned to avenge Roman treachery and retrieve their offspring. The scene depicts a woman standing between the belligerents, imploring them to cease fighting: If you are weary of these ties of kindred, these marriage-bonds, then turn...