Source: The American Conservative
by Daniel E Zoughbie
“‘If you cross the Halys River and attack the Persians, you will destroy a great empire.’ According to Herodotus, when Lydia’s King Croesus asked the Oracle at Delphi whether to make war on Cyrus the Great, he heard only what he wanted to hear, crossed the river and lost. The empire he destroyed was his own. Today’s oracles are far less discerning. When pastors gathered in the Oval Office this past March to lay hands on the president and pray for war, not one paused to warn him of the cost. Yet this modern hubris was not born in a vacuum. The crisis was a decade in the making.” (07/22/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-lesson-trump-can-take-from-herodotus-paradox/