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What a War 2400 Years Old Can Teach Us |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Blake D. Dvorak |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,156 Words, 7,142 Characters |
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A WAR LIKE NO OTHER: HOW THE ATHENIANS AND SPARTANS FOUGHT THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
Victor Davis Hanson
Random House, $29.95, 396 pages
When discussing current events, it is usually unwise to make sweeping historical analogies. To do so requires a thorough understanding of not just one event or era, but two, at which point things tend to get messy. The fellow at the party, for instance, might impress the guests by comparing the Iraq War to Athens' disastrous Sicilian expedition during the Peloponnesian War--as we've heard every now and then. It might be true, if U.S. troops had failed to overthrow Saddam Hussein; if, say, China came to Iraq's rescue, while North Korea invaded California; and if every soldier, ship, airplane and commander never returned home. Then, the Iraq War wo...
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...es' life mirrored the conflict and, in the same tragic manner, proved a colossal waste. At the end, both the city and its most flamboyant and gifted citizen shared an identical fate of enormous potential ruined rather than fully realized."
As Hanson tracks the war he follows Alcibiades, and you won't be disappointed if you go along for the ride.
Copyright © 2006 The Washington Times, LLC.
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