Enough about Georgia, Aristotle’s Poetics, Drama, Film, Culture, Ukraine, NATO’s confirmed failures and all else: Let’s talk about ME.

I have had (not many) several offers to teach (at decent schools), which I respectfully turned down. Some 3 decades ago my son was taught in a good NYC private school how Stalin and Hitler were allies – I filed complaints all the way to the State’s Board of Education and persisted in clarifying the vast difference between a mutual non-aggression agreement as opposed to jointly deploying troops and truly being an alliance. Those two years of my life soured my taste for ever teaching any subject anywhere.

To drive my point home with more temerity – I look at Joe Biden (a real sad excuse for any Foreign relations function – even if it were the Dept. of Agriculture on direct trade with Canada only, it would be over his head – Europe, Asia, Africa must be a nightmare of little states with too many consonants that nobody can remember. To see THAT – as our V.P. – gives me pause. I can only remember that communism was very good in rewarding mediocrities and any advancement which would have been a tad too sudden or put the elected ones to shame since the elected ones were the slowest learners – was strongly discouraged, and outright penalized.

Some comments that I read – mostly at the mainstream media, show absolute ignorance of the American public about the range of topics (dealing with overseas issues – and that’s the last place where the Gung-Ho policy will work, or anything that resembles Teddy Roosevelt’s “speak softly…” or any European version of the Monroe doctrine) which is by extension ignorance and unwillingness to worry about their own well being during the next 4 years. We have managed to paint ourselves in the corner as a nation of mediocrities (and I am being very generous there). It is, most commonly, through the trying times (such as today), that mediocrities manage to get behind a steering wheel and lead us by the shortest route directly to CHAOS.

We have had warnings by John Milton, by Edmund Burke, by Alexander Solzhenytsin, by Mother Theresa, by the Hellenic thinkers, by William Shakespeare, by every Christian ruler since the beginning of times - yet we continue to stray