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To: marcos who wrote (117356)	10/21/2003 11:17:36 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

> How many dictators can you name who have had this sort of epiphany? None. On the other hand, I can name quite a few regime changes for which this has been effective. It happened either by accident or by design, but either way, prosperity led to change for the better. The dictators themselves are rarely improved, probably for the same reasons that most adults rarely make profound changes to themselves. Thankfully they are not gods and eventually they die (often much sooner rather than later). If you think the problem is the dictator rather than the regime or certain segment of the society, then the problems can simply be solved by sending over a few CIA hit men. However, I believe that the dictator is just an extreme case of bigger problems in the society. Improve the society and the next generation of rulers will be better than the last. Such solutions may not win any headlines or satisfy our sense of justice, but they will produce permanent results. ST PS the transformation of Mongolians from one of the most bloodthirsty armies of the world to one of the greatest patrons of arts and culture the world has ever seen is only one such example.