tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159624446417849712.post6359288836786754836..comments2023-03-24T12:24:36.008+01:00Comments on Contessa Isabella Vacani: THE IDES OF MARCHContessa Isabella Vacanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16353575283269950315noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159624446417849712.post-17196016439308982312010-04-08T03:45:34.853+02:002010-04-08T03:45:34.853+02:00A fabulous read...It is like a great book I have r...A fabulous read...It is like a great book I have read, written from another century, another time. I was captivated.<br />EmmettAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159624446417849712.post-26718740691977060302010-04-08T03:43:07.632+02:002010-04-08T03:43:07.632+02:00A most fabulous read... It is, as I remember, read...A most fabulous read... It is, as I remember, reading a book written so well, as compared to today, from another century, another time!<br />EmmettAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159624446417849712.post-49605782238138070622009-03-19T14:48:00.000+01:002009-03-19T14:48:00.000+01:00Isabel, Thank you for this wonderful portrait of J...Isabel, <BR/><BR/>Thank you for this wonderful portrait of Julius Caesar, which surpasses any I have read in establishing Caesar's background and character, and brings out incidents in his life that few people are aware of. I seem to recall you posted a similar piece (with same picture) in 2008, but this year have expanded last year's Ides of March entry?<BR/><BR/>Jeannejarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16895952755225231011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6159624446417849712.post-51501740825560616462008-03-18T09:58:00.000+01:002008-03-18T09:58:00.000+01:00"In other words Caesar ranked higher than Napoleon..."In other words Caesar ranked higher than Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Gandhi, Churchill and Washington.<BR/><BR/>Why is this so?"<BR/><BR/>Proximity in time and the continuing existence of those persons' states are among the reasons. Mao, Churchill and Washington remain national icons for their respective great powers; Gandhi considerably so for the state he fathered; and Hitler remains an icon for creepy White nationalists all over the world, many of whom would like to rehabilitate his reputation. (Napoleon's reputation is now ambivalent.) Too much current propaganda is invested in the reputations of all those men for their long term reputations yet to become established.<BR/><BR/>A slight correction on FDR and Pearl Harbor: it's true that he knew an attack was coming, but the story that he knew exactly when and where is not supported by available evidence. I lose patience with a certain subspecies of American Nationalists (who overlap with antisemites and White Nationalists)<BR/>who blame the war on FDR and Churchill (and "the Jews") instead of principally on Hitler and secondarily Hitler's semi-ally Stalin. <BR/><BR/>As for your solicitation for names of other leaders who REALLY "supported the troops" and the People in the way Julius Caesar did, at the moment I can't think of any. You seem to be unchallengeable on that one! <BR/>The way America treats its veterans reminds me of the lines by Kipling:<BR/><BR/>" You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:<BR/>We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.<BR/>Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face<BR/>The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.<BR/>For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"<BR/>But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot..."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com