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After all, this isn't the first time a Western country waged a pre-emptive strike against Iraq. In 322 B.C., Iraq and its surrounding areas were invaded by [Alexander] of Macedon (known as Alexander the Great to the West and Alexander the Accursed to the East). We feared more attacks from terrorists after Sept. 11. The Greeks feared the same after a homeland attack years earlier. We feared that Saddam Hussein would hijack the word's supply of oil, cripple our economy and threaten our lives. The Greeks feared the Persian tyrant King Darius would hijack trade routes, stop the flow of gold and cripple Greece's future as a newly unified kingdom. Alexander's soldiers toppled the former dictator's statues upon victory just like our soldiers toppled the statue of Saddam. And just like Americans, the Greeks too placed a local leader in charge; only his name was Mazaeus, not Allawi. And just like today, the Greeks faced countless insurgencies from militant rebel leaders.

'Because I was trying to speak their language,' I explained. Most illegal immigrants are people who overstay their legal visas, I argued - and most illegal drugs are smuggled in through legal points of entry, hidden in secret containers or trucks. Interestingly, some of my liberal friends wanted to know why I didn’t include a discussion on human suffering (people dying in the desert, and so on) or the immense environmental harm a wall would inflict. “Because I was trying to speak their language,” I explained. Could this approach make a difference when arguing about such hot-button issues as abortion or global warming? I don’t know, but perhaps attempting to might short-circuit the automatic emotional response that paints issues in black or white and keeps us stuck in cycles of outrage.

\"Cleopatra's enemies claimed that she was evil and dangerous. Her people believed that she was the living goddess Isis. Movies have been made about her, and Hollywood showed her as a shallow diva. Will we ever know what the real queen Cleopatra was like?\" (Appleseeds) Read some facts about Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt.

Read a story about how Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, learned to speak Egyptian.