Word: warriorism
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...Hughie. A near constant presence in the Clintons' lives since he and brother Tony tagged along on their 1975 honeymoon, Hughie has a complicated relationship with his sister. Growing up, the little warmth their father Hugh Rodham Sr. had to give went primarily to Hillary. She was the Warrior Princess of Oak Park, Ill., beating up the boys in the neighborhood, always the captain when her brothers played "spaceship," less afraid, by her telling, of the scary flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz than Baby Hughie, who tried to hide under his seat at a Chicago movie theater...
Even before the pardon scandal, the relationship between brother and sister as adults could be strained. It was as if Hughie had never grown out of his grandiose and childlike schemes while Hillary became a real-life Warrior Princess. As Hughie bounced from Peace Corps volunteer to public defender to a quixotic run for the Florida Senate in 1994--getting only 30% of the vote--he looked slightly hapless and more dependent on his sister's good graces. During the second term, Hugh spent ever more time on the third floor of the White House, accumulating so much stuff that...
...coming to power. Here is the former general who tried to kill him with air strikes on his Beirut bunker, who was found by an official Israeli report 18 years ago to bear "indirect responsibility" for the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Maybe the coming of the old warrior is what recently led a clearly unnerved Arafat to grab a machine gun from a bodyguard and leap out of his car when Jewish settlers in Gaza blocked the road...
...combat. So if yesterday's Army grunts had G.I. Joe, what better model for tomorrow's push-button conquistadors than these butt-whuppin' machine masters? The lesson, at least, is apparently not lost on the U.S. Army, which is sponsoring the current season of BattleBots. All hail the Warrior Geek...
...beginning to feel as nasty as a cannibal myself. I have been considering Caius Marcius Coriolanus, for whose attitude I have developed a sneaking admiration. I spent the weekend rereading both Plutarch's and Shakespeare's version of the story. Coriolanus, a great warrior and fierce hero of early Rome - scornful, intolerant, and an early masterpiece of political incorrectness - so offended the plebeians by refusing to flatter and truckle to them (he was supposed to kiss babies and campaign for their approval in order to be ratified as consul) that they mobbed up and came close to throwing...