Go ask Agamemnon; America's 'gift' for self-fulfilling prophecy foretells a future of more strife.

From: U.S. Catholic | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Clarke, Kevin | Copyright information

CASSANDRA IS REMEMBERED FOR HER GIFT OF PROPHecy, but her skills would not have seemed so impressive were it revealed, say, that she schemed for the destruction of Troy or the murder of Agamemnon even as she foretold their unfortunate ends. Like the tragic Cassandra, contemporary political prognosticators occasionally try their hands at geopolitical divination that can also prove unpleasantly prescient.

In fact, we Americans suffer from a peculiar gift for self-fulfillin...

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