10-09-2018, 12:15 PM
(10-09-2018, 12:11 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:(10-08-2018, 02:32 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: > It troubles me when President Trump says that he can solve any
> international problem 'easily'. I have never heard any President
> (going back to Johnson) claim to have an easy solution for any
> international crisis. Sometimes the best solution is to let things
> go as they are likely to, as with the elder Bush with the
> anti-Communist revolutions in central and Balkan Europe in
> 1989. But that required some honest assessment of each national
> situation.
> "Easy" is for amateurs, drudges, and suckers.
I see that you still are unable to distinguish between words and
deeds.
Competent and honest people, to the extent possible, make their words and deeds align. Fools and liars allow a chasm between the two.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.