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Posted at 3:44pm on Mar. 18, 2008 Barack Alcibiades Obama
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[NOTE I posted this previously in a comment, but I thought it might be better placed as a blog.]
Has anyone here has read Steven Pressfield's Tides of War, a novel about the Peloponnesian War?
In the novel, Pressfield has undertaken the task of describing the famous Athenian General Alcibiades. In the story, Alcibiades comes across as an absolutely brilliant, talented leader of men who gives new meaning to the word peerless. His powers of persuasion were legendary. In the midst of an going hot and cold war between Athens and her greatest enemy Sparta (a fight that both city-states saw as being potentially a matter of life and death for their respective ways of life), Alcibiades was able to persuade Athens to outfit a fleet to fight a full scale war against Greek colonies in Sicily. It would be as if in the midst of the Cold War, the U.S. had decided to fight a full scale war to make India an American colony.