Carthage Must Be Obliterated

Roman troops raised carthage in one, four, six b c, long after it presents presented any threat to their supremacy. The romans even went to the lints of asking priests to curse the ruins of carthage after they had utterly destroyed it. Was it because of their fear of hannibal that led them to go to such extreme measures? I think so. Because they had bounced back from thed defeated the first punic war to become an even greater threat. So he was able to at least buy several decades of survival for carthage. Hannibal actually became a president, if you will, of carhage for a while. But rome justthe