January 12, 2007
Iraq and Sicily
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
The obvious historical analogy to the feckless Iraqi adventure is the Athenians' Sicilian Expedition in the Peloponnesian War. In each case what seemed in prospect like a cheap power-grab by the dominant power turned into disaster, and in the Athenian case the end of its hegemony. Now it appears that the neocons fear the fate of the Athenian demagogues: having persuaded the demos to support the Sicilian venture, they took the blame when it failed.
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