“DECEIVE BOYS WITH TOYS,” stated the great Spartan General Lysander Lysander, “but men with oaths.” He was presumably speaking before he went into battle and soundly whipped the Athenian democrats in 406 B.C. en route to taking control over a considerable amount of Asia Minor. Today’s brave political leaders, in keeping with what we expect of them as intellectuals, show total ignorance of what happened yesterday, and seem to be utterly aghast when events that were totally predictable take place.
GORDON BROWN TODAY STATED THAT THE SCALE and depth of the “serial” deception carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran and its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will “shock and anger the international community”. Worrying indeed, is Gordon Brown’s allegation that Iran has been “caught red-handed not telling the truth”, despite promises that it would not produce nuclear weapons. I had not been intending to make a comparison study out of my feelings, but I imagine I may spend a least a small part of my weekend weighing up whether I am more “shocked and angry” about our Iranian friends than I am about Gordon Brown’s own deception.
EQUALLY PERTINENT TO TOYS AND BOYS is the startling revelation that the gentlemen responsible for “outing” our “deceitful” politicians over their expenses scandal were driven to such drastic measures by seeing that our politicians were lining their pockets while “our boys in Afghanistan”, as they were today described in The Sun, did not have the right equipment to defend themselves, as the “armour” and “heavy machinery” sent over to them would be useless against roadside bombs. Do they know what Lysander was talking about now?
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