The Ides of March

Several hundred years before the Roman empire began a metamorphosis toward Christian faith and governance, the empire was ruled by pagan emperors.  The Roman calendar, which is the basis of our modern calendar, named the third month Martius, after the god Mars, also known as the god of war. In 44 BC, the Roman emperor Julius Caesar was murdered on March 15. Sixteen centuries later, William Shakespeare wrote a tragic stage playabout the demise of Caesar. Side note: "Caesar" is the Latin word that later morphed into the German title, "Kaiser", as in Kaiser Wilhelm, the German monarch who started World War I because Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austrian throne was assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serbian fanatic. Even though the lethal tipping point had started down in the Balkan area, Kaiser Wilhelm sent his German armies to attack France. The logic behind that German aggression in the opposite direction is very complicated, convoluted, and ultimately deadly for millions of Europeans. But I digress. I was writing about Caesar's demise on the Ides of March,and Shakespeare's dramatization of the crime, in which a soothsayerintrudes upon Caesar's entourage with a cryptic message: "Beware the Ides of March." Soon thereafter, Caesar was stabbed to death in the Roman Senate by his political opponent, Brutus. Now I don't know, but I been told, that just now, in our present world, we have an emperor wannabe who has, by starting a war, placed himself in the the sites of Iranian fanatics. He may be in grave danger. Furthermore, America may be in worse danger than before this clusterfud started.  Now I'm no fan of donald trump, but we don't want another dealey plaza tragedy barrelling down on America.  In my humble opinion as an American citizen, trump's war, illegally initiated without, as our Constitution requires, a Declaration of War by Congress, ignites a volatile international powder keg that could, like the first world war, degenerate into an internatational ceremony of death. Lastly, the consequences of trump's belligerent high-tech attack on Iran may not be fatal for trump. But it could provoke, because of its impetuous illegality, among the American people, a groundswell of protest, which had already been initiated by his provocation of the violent assault on our Congress, January 6, 2021.

Attack on our Capitol and US the peopleNot only that, but, the religious folk who originally supported his ascent may not be supportive for him when they discover the depths of immoral debauchery that were exchanged between him and that epstein character. Now, just like any other American who is trying to figure out this Iranian war, and all the stuff that preceded it. . . I'm just sayin', Mr. President, Beware the ides of March, and the tides of Iran-war confusion. Glass half-Full