The Wind and The Lion

...if the wind wants to exert power in the lions den it will have to be willing to bleed, profusely, and still, most probably, it will be beaten and expelled...

It's not the first time I am reminded of a letter written by “Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates” and sent to Theodore Roosevelt. The letter is fictional and it appears in a 1975 epic movie starring Sean Connery and Candice Bergen.

Inspired by a real story, the screenplay tells us of a Moroccan Be…