Great leaders led soldiers to the land of legends through buckets of blood. Alexander the Great invaded Persia, the world’s most powerful empire, with a host of 42,000 troops. Victory was assured at the Battle of Issus. Power was insured by the murder of Darius, the Persian emperor.

The year was 334 BC.

Alexander sought greater glory to the East, only stopping before the Ganges after his weary troops rebelled at the prospect of conquering the kingdoms of the Orient.

For most of his epic Alexander was accompanied by his male lover, Hephaestion. The conqueror mourned the passing of his ‘friend’ as he would a wife. No one ever said that neither warrior was not a man, unlike the US Congress, for the man-man preference in sexuality was unimportant to the ancients as long as a warrior showed a taste for murderous art on the battlefield, however the US Senate voted against the repeal of the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, despite the US Court determining the ruling to be unconstitutional.

The GOP was quick to crow about a victory over Obama especially since the Head Democrat Henry Reid joined the other side of the aisle along with two other democratic senators forcing any swing vote on the GOP side to vote along with the rest of the GOP.

56-43

And the one ex-senator who couldn’t be happier?

ex-Senator Craig of Minnesota.

He had been busted for cruising in the airport bathroom. A tea room in gay venacular.

For tea-bagging.

He never was asked and he never told when he was a private first-class with the Idaho National Guard 1970-1972.

A man who know when to hold his piece or someone else’s piece too.

The above image is Hephaestion’s face from 2000 years down the time line.

Haunting.