An interesting character out of Greek mythology.
Maureen Dowd uses the phrase 'Sisyphian task' to describe America's toils in Afghanistan.
Now that I know what Sisyphus is all about, I guess she is sort of right.
The guy was apparently a king who was punished by the gods for his hubris.
His punishment was that he would push a stone up a hill and it would come down and he would push it up again ... till eternity.
Ouch!
The Greeks were certainly creative in their myth making!
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