The Islamic Republic of Iran would do well to study Shakespeare

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The IRI’s jest of sending the U.S. a pink toy model of the drone lost in Iran is not unprecedented in history. If Obama has one tenth the balls (no pun intended in this case) of dear Henry and 1000X the force we shall do well.

We know he has the force. The rest is yet to be seen.

“History doesn’t repeat. But it does rhyme” -Samuel Clemens

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2 Replies to “The Islamic Republic of Iran would do well to study Shakespeare”

  1. Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers, with scaling-ladders

    KING HENRY V
    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
    Or close the wall up with our English dead.
    In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
    As modest stillness and humility:
    But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
    Then imitate the action of the tiger;
    Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
    Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
    Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
    Let pry through the portage of the head
    Like the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it
    As fearfully as doth a galled rock
    O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
    Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.
    Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
    Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
    To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
    Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
    Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
    Have in these parts from morn till even fought
    And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
    Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
    That those whom you call’d fathers did beget you.
    Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
    And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
    Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
    The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
    That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
    For there is none of you so mean and base,
    That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
    I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
    Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:
    Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
    Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!

    Let’s wack these muzzie windbags!

  2. They would do even better if they studied Machiavelli. Both he and Shaky are renowned renaissance men although from different countries. And both has been highly influential although in very different ways.