Kayla Mueller is not our Helen of Troy

Brand goes on to say, “Some seem to think Mueller should inspire a war. In their thinking, she is something like a modern-day Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the provocative “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” When he met her, Abraham Lincoln was supposed to have said: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” The notion that a nonviolent, female sideliner could spark wars, which are historically the province of men, goes back into ancient history.”

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