Commentary
In Part I, I said China should not wake a sleeping elephant, that democracies are slow to react, but once aroused, their citizens united, those who attack them, Germany and Japan during WW II, soon wish they hadn’t. To this day the Persians wish they hadn’t attacked the Greeks at the plain of Marathon in 490 BC. Fearful of losing what they had just given birth to, Western civilization, the notion that the individual, not the community, is the focus of society, that rights of the citizen precede rights of the state, the Greek army, half the size of the Persian army, awakened, with extraordinary bravery, and defeated an enemy that came for no other reason than to conquer and plunder.
