Eternal Saga of Asia and Europe, Tehran as Troy, Helen of Uranium, Netanyahu the Cuckolded King of Sparta……….
Maybe this game of cat and mouse will reach a new level of intensity.
Europeans and Asians have been at it for thousands of years. The oldest recorded was the battle for Asian Troy, or was it the battle for European Helen?
It has been going on since before the days of Cyrus the Great. The Greeks thought their new Macedonian king Alexander will end all that. He didn’t. He conquered Persia temporarily, but soon things were back to where they had been. Caesar had in mind to follow in Alexander’s footsteps, but he died. Before him Marcus Crassus tried to invade deep into Asia, to conquer the Persian Empire, but he and his Roman legions perished at Carrhae.
The Japanese and the Europeans resumed the Asian-European battle in the 20th century: the American opening of Tokyo Bay, the Russo-Japanese War, and World War II. Then came Chairman Mao, who used to say things that even Ahmadinejad and the fiercest ayatollahs would be too embarrassed to say about the West.
Now it is Iran, again, against the West. Perhaps the inevitable eternal rivalry of Asia vs. Europe. Will Qom or Tehran be the new Troy? With the US Fleet and Israeli air force playing the Greek alliance? Will the nuclear program be the modern Helen of enriched uranium?
In this new reenactment of the drama, the Likud of Netanyahu is the inevitable cuckolded King of Sparta, whose nuclear queen was.........
Bibi is going around acting like the injured husband-king urging war.
Who will write the story of this saga, this chapter of the eternal saga of Asia and Europe.……
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