Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. When reports surfaced that officials in the Obama Administration were “crowing” over Afghan President Hami Karzai’s agreement to a runoff vote, it reminded me of Socrates’ final words. Just before taking hemlock, and right before committing autonomous, or political, self-immolation, Socrates reminded Crito to give Asclepius a rooster to pay his debt. Socrates, you see, had been arrested and put on trial by a democracy. And as a citizen of an independent state, he merely felt obligated to accept the verdict of the Athenian majority. Socrates is also one of the first recorded individuals to think for himself, to ask… 
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