If you haven't read The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, it is well worth it. The brutal aspects of this political treatise are held by many scholars to be satire, (Machiavelli was belittling Cesar Borgia). But there was one very important message in this work that I can summarize in a nut shell:
True power rests with he who yields it, not he who rents it. How is this applicable today? If Israel wants to be a powerful, self-determining state, then it should not look to America for help. This is particularly pertinent now that Israel is hesitating to attack iran's nuclear facilities because it does not have American approval, or maybe Israel just wants America to do the attacking for her. Either way, this is not how you run a country than is supposed to be independent.
Any thoughts?
Topic: The Prince (Read 600 times)