From Charles Platt’s “The Profits of Fear” (August 2005):
It seems to me axiomatic that most primary actors on the global stage are disturbed people, because an obsessive lust for power is itself a pathology, and in a competition among thousands or millions of power seekers, only the most pathological are likely to win. …
I think Bush understood very clearly a fundamental fact of politics: Our leaders are less valuable to us at times when we feel more secure.
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Posted on July 31st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
Categories: history, politics
Tags: fear, manipulation, politics, psychology, terrorism
