‘Timeo donas et dona feremtis’
I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts. (Iliad)

In case you haven’t guessed already this is the point at which Greeks have left the Trojan horse at the gates of troy. Welcome to modern Troy. Only there is no Helen here. All you will find is something greater then the face that launched a thousand ships. You will find the land that made a thousand nuclear war heads.

Now the Iliad is centuries old. And there are quite some people who would question the morality of the epic. But These Five words of archaic Greek has more wisdom then all the rhetoric that we have had to endure in last centuries from our leaders.

In other words all we have had in the Last Century as leaders have been, In Political Terms, Rabbits. The rabbit is a cute looking creature. It is always hungry. It grows exponentially. And of course it is also one of the stupidest creatures on Earth. You can always catch a rabbit in a box by putting a simple carrot and stick Policy. Take a carrot of power, Use a stick of black mail and capture in a box of luxury.