Canadians played a major role in saving our personnel in Iran during the hostage crisis. ARGO just rubbed salt in that wound and this plot would have killed both Americans and Canadians. That was my first thought when the bombs went off in Boston. What does the Marathon commemorate? The Battle of Marathon where the Persians were defeated in 490 BC.
Canadians played a major role in saving our personnel in Iran during the hostage crisis.
Your kind words appreciated. We now learn one of the two men apprended this manner is from Tunisia and the other from the United Arab Emirates.
I hear no praise as yet for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the American arm of intelligence, who worked together. Well done and thank God, we did not get another horrible jolt.
I have read Sir Edward Creasy and his "Fifteen Decisive Battles" (1851). He credits the Athenians with the great victory over Persia. He reckoned the whole of Western Civilization would have been lost with a defeat. Be that as it may, I remember one phrase from his narative. This of the Persians.
"Their arrows darkened the Sun".
Excuse the ramble but if we of the English speaking peoples "do not hang together, we will surely hang apart".