On the Cretan Character.
May 18th, 2020 Professor Julia Elizabeth Adams A Siege of the Mind Most of the people in America have surely dealt with a Cretan at least once. They are a proud people, a rich people, and one of the few in the whole world that, when the United States speaks, offer only a thumb of their noses as response. They recluse themselves from most of the international organizations, and yet, they still affect the talks regardless. Their armed forces have left their home only once in more than a thousand years, and yet it is not uncommon to hear them put on the same pedestal as those of our British or French allies. Yes, most of us have met, or at least heard of, the Cretans. And to those of us with just a little knowledge of geopolitics, or military matters, the Cretan view of the world is fit only to leave us perplexed. The island of Crete has been turned into nothing short of an impregnable fortress, one that has abandoned the walls of stone of old in favor of the missile barrages of the
