Remember the stirring words of that New Christy Minstrels sage, Barry Maguire?
The eastern world
it is explodin'
violence flarin'
bullets loadin'
"The Easter 1916" of its generation. Without, you know, the vision and grandeur of Yeats. But still...
I just had to bring it up. How much do things ever change?
BTW, Hadrian knew enough to pull out of Mesopotamia after Trajan, that mad fellow Hispanic, had gone to the trouble of conquering it. So what's wrong with our "usual gang of idiots"?
I'm just sayin'.
They don't change much at all. Confucius wanted a new kind of leader, a superior person whose aim would be to benefit the people.
Posted by: Marco | November 26, 2007 at 08:55 AM