#Post proelia praemia arms and armament free#

Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. The powerful representatives of the line of divine and Theban kingship, Jupiter, Eteocles, and Creon, act on similar desires, but in a mercantile fashion that further vitiates their goals. With the warring brothers dead, Creon bows to the Theban throne, whereupon he is immediately transformed and begins governing ruthlessly. Unlike Eteocles, Polynices shows a certain self-awareness and so considerably displays more concern for those around him. Statius gives Eteocles features of the typical tyrant, including violence, cruelty, and arrogance, but is particularly interested in exploring the homology between physical appetites and the pursuit of power. They differ fundamentally in their approaches to exchange and consumption in ways that make Eteocles more morally culpable for the devastation of the war. Leftist Proven Incompetent again.This chapter describes the three major characters in Thebaid-Eteocles, Polynices, and Creon-the first two of whom are primarily concerned with securing a power they do not yet possess. In the unlikely, though I suppose still possible event that Ī pattern is perhaps identifiable ? ĭEMOCRACY IN IRAN ONLY AHMADINEJAD AND AYATOOLLAH KHAMENEII SHOULD BE IN PRISON FOR LIFE ĭostoevsky and the Roots of Modern Terrorism Very Shocking- The Government of Iran basically says shut up to the people. Who knows if Mousavi has changed ĭo you think it is just a game? Submit a comment on this item Reader comments (28) on this item Whatever it requires, Mousavi as president hastens the process. While confident that process is underway, I have no idea if it is weeks or decades ahead. Better yet, of course, would be for neither of them to hold power but for the entire fetid Islamic Republic of Iran to collapse. If Mousavi prevails, it will be on a wave of reformist sentiment.' While that reformist sentiment may not shake the regime and is unlikely to stop the nuclear weapons program, it does hold out hope for substantial change.Īccordingly, I no longer want Ahmadinejad to serve as president for a second term but prefer Mousavi in that position. In the words of Abbas Milani, my colleague at the Hoover Institution, 'If Ahmadinejad survives, it will be on the back of a Tiananmen-style crackdown.

#Post proelia praemia arms and armament free#

The startling events in Iran in the week since the election, however, have transformed Mousavi from a hack Islamist politician into the unlikely symbol of dreams for a more secular and free Iran. Supreme Leader Ali Khamene'i (left) and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (second from right in the back row) praying in Tehran on June 19.

Therefore, while my heart goes out to the many Iranians who desperately want the vile Ahmadinejad out of power, my head tells me it's best that he remain in office.

Whoever is elected president, whether Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or his main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, will have limited impact on the issue that most concerns the outside world – Iran's drive to build nuclear weapons, which Khamene'i will presumably continue apace, as he has in prior decades. I then went on more fully to explain this opinion at ' Rooting for Ahmadinejad,' where I provided the context that this selective quote omitted: The reason, Pipes went on, is that he would 'prefer to have an enemy who's forthright and obvious, who wakes people up with his outlandish statements.'

'I'm sometimes asked who I would vote for if I were enfranchised in this election, and I think that, with due hesitance, I would vote for Ahmadinejad,' Pipes said. Here it is, as presented by the left-wing journalist who broke the story: A throwaway line of mine at the Heritage Foundation on June 3 has turned into a minor internet sensation.