Interesting clipping found on [lawandpolitics.blogspot.com]

The Third Punic War–A Distant Echo of the Attack on Iraq 

Pinpointing the causes of any war is notoriously difficult. But often one can find that at least part of the impetus involves a touch of the irrational–inexplicable human urges, personal obsessions, private hatreds. These undercurrents can lead politicians to exaggerate threat to justify a preemptive attack.

The Third Punic War (149-146 BC) is a case in point. Adrian Goldsworthy’s The Punic Wars describes the possible causes for that war between Rome and Carthage in terms oddly resonant with the politics of war circa 2002-03. A summary of Goldsworthy’s account:

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