Readers of Homer should be knowing about Cassandra the princess whose predictions were seldom proved wrong. She once told Paris the prince who had abducted Helen of Sparta and brought her to Troy causing fury in the Greek ranks and triggering the launch of a thousand ships against Ilium. “I see fire and blood and destruction in the streets of Ilium because of you.”
“What can I do to avert it Cassandra?” Paris had asked.
“Kill Achilles. He is the symbol of Greek power,” she replied
“He is a god— and immortal”. Paris had said, and she had replied. “He is not immortal. If you can target his heel he will die.”
Subsequently Paris did find Achilles’ heel with his poisoned arrow, and ended the myth of the Greek god’s immortality.
But Cassandra’s next prophesy was even more ominous.
“I see rivers of blood flowing in the streets of Ilium Paris. The gods of Troy have forsaken us.”
Cassandarian gloom seems to prevail in the N-League camp. There are reports that two key federal ministers (Shahid Khaqaan Abbasi and (Khwaja Asif) are on a secret tour of the U.S and as a consequence President Obama has telephoned MNS to record his solidarity with the government and the people of Pakistan.
In the wake of the recent happenings and the complete disarray visible in the N-league camp (due to General Raheel Sharif’s declared offensive against terrorists and their facilitators irrespective of the location), the Government of MNS was in dire need of some kind of morale-boosting blood-transfusion.
But let us do some scanning and surfing of history. The U.S has never shied away from expressing its solidarity with any government, be it Civil or Military.
