By Philip GIRALDI
Using America's sons and daughters to devastate the world
Sometimes a seemingly insignificant story tells one more about what is going on than the attempts being made to perceive the larger reality. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army the big developing story was the Roman Republic's impending Civil War pitting Caesar against the country's Senate and Pompey the Great, but the Rubicon was particularly revealing in that it indicated that Caesar was willing to defy the Senate's political control in pursuit of his own ambitions.