War, Cheating, and Posting Again!

Ok--an especially long hiatus there, but I think I'll be getting back to some regular posting...Here goes:

Barton Kunstler (OpEdNews.com) launches a screed about how "The Spartans Would Think We're Crazy," arguing that Spartan restraint in the exercise of military force would be a salutary lesson:

Although the Spartans trained harder than anyone else, they also were guided in their approach to war by at least three important principles. The most tactical was simply, "Don't fight the same enemy too often because he'll learn all your tricks and use them against you". If you go at it with the same guys over and over, sooner or later they're going to figure out how to beat you. And since the Spartans maneuvered on the battlefield like no one else on earth, they weren't so dumb as to give their enemies a crash-course in their cutting-edge tactics.
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Persia lost to the Athenians in 490 B.C.E., and to a loose Greek coalition in 480 and 479. A dreadfully outnumbered Greek force under Xenophon 75 years later cut a swath through the Persian empire and fought its way to freedom. The Persians lost the aura of invincibility that surrounded their fabulously wealthy, immense empire. Time just awaited a Philip of Macedon to realize that it was ripe for the picking, and his son, Alexander, to do the job. Familiarity truly bred contempt. The Greeks had fought the Persians enough to know they were vulnerable. History provided the right timing.

We don't like to think it, but both Israel and the United States are following a similar path. Their military prestige has been exhausted. Unlike the Spartans, the U.S. and Israel were too quick to go to war. The Spartans knew that military prestige won more battles when held back close to the vest of policy than squandered whenever one wants some practice kicking ass with a new weapons system.

In other commentary, Lance Pugmire (LATimes) delves into the ancient history of cheating:

More than 2,000 years before Mike Tyson bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear and was disqualified in the boxing ring, Eupolus of Thessaly, a boxer in the Olympics of 388 BC, bribed three of his opponents to take dives.

Historians consider Eupolus' crime the first recorded act of cheating in sports. History also tells of how wide the chasm was between the way Olympic champions and also-rans were treated back in the day.

Winners were afforded adoring parades before their home folk, prizes of lavish meals, the finest olive oil, theater seats and sex partners. Losers, as the Greek poet Pindar wrote, would "slink through the back alleys to their mothers."

On other fronts, David Hines (RenewAmerica.us) goes through the plot of the Oresteia, complaining that we all too often just want a deus ex machina...and Alan Keyes at WorldNetDaily considers the ceasefire in Lebanon to be an example of "Pyrrhic diplomacy."

There, now...that wasn't so hard, was it?

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