[bronxville]

- Whomever chose the name of this illegal operation should remember that Ulysses lost all his colleagues in the process though he did know his final goal. - Does NATO know what the final goal is in Libya?

[dr_lew]

Did you see THE THIN RED LINE ?

Eos rhododactylos. Rosey fingered dawn. You're Greek, aren't you, Captain? Did you ever read Homer? We read Homer at the Point. In Greek . . . Nick Nolte as Lt. Col. Tall in The Thin Red Line

I took note of this because I had only recently apprised myself of the greek phrase. I was also led to ruminations on the lack of any similar rhapsodical descriptions of sunset. It occured to me that this is a more modern development as the later evening became a time for continued social activity.

There is a mythical representation of the sunset though, in the Garden of the Hesperides, beyond the Ocean in the west, where the eponymous nymphs guard an orchard of golden apples. Surely this is Eden!

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

>>>Ulysses lost all his colleagues in the process

Didn’t Odysseus find out that he’d lose all of his crew (and ship) and that he himself MIGHT make it back if he was lucky?

He lied to his crew that Tiresias’ foretold little problems, that it was mostly clear sailing.

This was the modern day version of “TRUST ME”.

Oh, Wiley Odysseus!

[harmonium]

Who does pick these names?

Sounds more 1st Earth Battalion to me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion

...and of course Obama got approval from the international community, instead on Congress.

[MinuteGal]

The metaphor of the "Dawn in the Odyssey" is Obama's dawn of radical change in America and other countries that need changing according to the agenda that roils around in his commie/fascist mind.

K'Daffy was not Muslim enough for Obama...and he wasn't threatening Israel every other day, hence the need for enforced change and a new red dawn for the desert country.

Obuma devised this liberal-speak, faggy name for the Libya war operation, there's no doubt about it in my mind.

Leni

[beebuster2000]

i like the part of the story where he comes home in disguise after 10 years and the only person who recognizes him is his ancient and broke down hunting dog.
then he goes to lunch where a bunch of losers are hitting on his wife. she says she will marry the guy who can string O’s bow and shoot an arrow thru axe heads. no one can, until they come to O, he does, shoots the axe heads, and then all the posers at the lunch.
end of story.

[FourPeas]

Yep, I have a hard time believing the choice of name is an accident. Whoever came up with it likely knew he could sell it with it’s fancy-schmancy poetic ring, especially to someone so superficial as Pres. Obama and his ilk.

I wonder what those liberals who know their Greek Lit think of it.

[kitchen]

Perhaps not to your point, but I wonder how many in the audience, 2,800 years ago, listening to an old blind man spin a tale, would have recognized these in the same way this author does. That Homer repeatedly returns to the same formulae, leads me to believe these metaphors were common to the vernacular.

Perhaps someone here who remembers their Greek could consult the original text and determine if these formulae were of archaic or contemporary construction.