What’s This War About?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 23rd, 2011 4:28 am by HL
What’s This War About?
Tony Blankley, Washington Times
Amid all the confusion of our new little war in Libya, one thing is clear: Notwithstanding the bravery and professionalism of our troops, in naming it Operation Odyssey Dawn, the Pentagon has invoked a haunting specter. The war's namesake — Homer's epic poem “The Odyssey” — is the tale of the hero, Odysseus, taking 10 years to get home from the Trojan War — which itself took 10 years to fight. In fairness to the Pentagon, when the Germans started their ill-fated campaign in Tripoli in February 1941 (that was to be lost due to a too-long and thin logistics line), they,…
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