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Article: Lessons of the Peloponnesian War: although the current "war on terror" and the Peloponnesian War in ancient Greece are separated by over 2,400 years, their similarities are striking, instructive, and cautionary.(HISTORY--STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- January 9, 2006
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Delay not, fellow-allies, but convinced of the necessity of the crisis, and the wisdom of this counsel, vote for the war, undeterred by its immediate terrors, but looking beyond to the lasting peace by which it will be succeeded. Out of war peace gains fresh stability.
--Speech delivered by the Corinthians pleading with the Spartans to renew the war with Athens, as quoted by Thucydides in The History of the Peloponnesian War
A free people embroiled in an increasingly unpopular war, a mounting death toll, unilateral pursuit of the "spreading of democracy," unsuccessful economic sanctions followed by military intervention and "liberation," politicians ...