Trojan Horse [Part 1]

Do you remember your Greek mythology...remember the story about the Trojan Horse?

Let me refresh your memory...

The Trojan Horse refers to the stratagem that allowed the Greeks to finally enter the city of Troy during the Trojan War. After a fruitless 10-year siege of Troy, the Greeks built a huge figure of a horse, in which a select force of soldiers hid. The Greeks pretended to sail away, and the Trojans pulled the Horse into their city as a victory trophy. That night the Greek force crept out of the Horse and opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army, which had sailed back under cover of night. The Greek army entered and destroyed the city, decisively ending the war. A "Trojan Horse" has come to mean any trick that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or place.

In applying this story to our culture we will have to make a few changes...these changes make the story more intriguing...and these changes make our North American cultures defeat...even more of a tragedy then Troys.

In our story...the soldiers who hide in the Trojan horse...and ultimately open wide the gates for the oncoming enemy...are our own soldiers...the soldiers that many in our culture hail as our greatest heros...

We will look at these heros at a later date...