Read this article in the L.A.Times and see if you can draw any modern parallels. Here's an excerpt:
According to Thucydides, the digression into Sicily in 416 BC — a sideshow that involved lying exiles, hopeful contractors, politicized intelligence, a doctrine of preemption — ultimately cost Athens everything, including its democracy
Wow, deja vu all over again, huh?
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