| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/09/03, 1:19 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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As in a Greek tragedy, Westerners who announced they would bomb Syria within the hour have done nothing but tear each other apart. "Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad," said Euripides.
On one side, the leaders of the permanent member states of the Security Council, Barack Obama, David Cameron and Francois Hollande; on the other, their peoples. On the one hand, hubris (ὕβρις), the excesses of the last great colonial powers, on the other, the Light of Reason. Facing them, the Syrians, quiet and enduring, and their allies, Russians and Iranians, on watch.
The piece being played is not just another episode of world domination, but is a pivotal moment in that history has not known since 1956 and the victory of Nasser at the Suez Canal . At the time, the United Kingdom, France and Israel had to give up their colonial dream. Certainly, there
were still the wars in Algeria, Vietnam and the end of apartheid in South Africa, but the momentum placing the West at the head of the world had collapsed.
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