Bush as Pericles ?

War  MIGHT be inevitable with the likes of Saddam

    Hussein. Still I can think of a parallel from my ancient history.

    They made us study Western Civilization way back in those days

    ( early 60s ) . Did not one Greek leader -Pericles - secure a

    democratic  approval for a disastrous expedition against the

    tyrant of Syracuse ? What a blow to fascist Sparta ... and

    what a gain for Athenian imperialism !

            If that old trouble maker, Socrates, could come back

    to life from the Golden Age of Greece, what advice would he

    give President George Bush on a war against Iraq ? A warning

    against HUBRIS ?

              If I were of military age , I would just volunteer

    for front line duty - in a hospital.