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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (401478)	3/4/2019 1:23:54 PM
From: Sun Tzu	1 Recommendation Recommended By abuelita Respond to of 540805

More on national self-deception. I remember an interview with Dalai Lama in which someone asked him what he thought of Saddam. This was in the days before the Iraq war. He said, (again speaking from memory), "I feel bad for him. I think he got a bad wrap. And let me say that I do think that he is a brutal dictator and that he does look very scary. But I hear a lot about how he killed so many people. And the truth is that he did not kill them. He ordered his people to kill. And his staff did not kill the people by hand, they used weapons. And those weapons they did not build by themselves..." And his point was that if you don't reduce complex issues to a soundbite, then you will see things better.