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I think one of the biggest mistakes people make is to assume everyone is an ethical person like oneself.
So we believe people because we ourselves don't lie, and fall prey to Nigerian scams.
That's what happened to Chamberlain: he was so sure Hitler had to be telling him the truth, that he wouldn't invade Poland or anywhere else at all, just give him what he already had and everything would be fine, appeasement because he really, really wanted it, and that's all. Nothing else bad would happen.
Chamberlain believed Hitler because he himself was an honorable man and simply could not imagine that Hitler COULD be lying about such an important thing.
But Hitler's tanks rolled into Poland Sept. 1, 1939, and Chamberlain's government immediately fell and Churchill, who had been saying for years that Hitler was the worst of liars, aggressive, militaristic, bent on world conquest -- rose at once to be prime minister, because he had been right and poor Chamberlain was now a watchword for foolish idealism.
I think it's obvious Iran is developing the bomb just as North Korea is, and obvious that Iran means to obliterate Israel and also take over Iraq and Saudi Arabia and control the whole Middle Eastern area. The Persian Empire has quite a long history of controlling that whole area, after all: there's nothing new or remarkable about it. Manifest Destiny, from their point of view. I think it's a mistake to think the best possible about a nation that is clearly doing the worst and saying much worse even than that.
It's like all Hitler's speeches about how Jews were Germany's misfortune and internal enemies. Why did people assume he didn't really mean it?
He did mean it. IMO, Iran means it, too.
So we believe people because we ourselves don't lie, and fall prey to Nigerian scams.
That's what happened to Chamberlain: he was so sure Hitler had to be telling him the truth, that he wouldn't invade Poland or anywhere else at all, just give him what he already had and everything would be fine, appeasement because he really, really wanted it, and that's all. Nothing else bad would happen.
Chamberlain believed Hitler because he himself was an honorable man and simply could not imagine that Hitler COULD be lying about such an important thing.
But Hitler's tanks rolled into Poland Sept. 1, 1939, and Chamberlain's government immediately fell and Churchill, who had been saying for years that Hitler was the worst of liars, aggressive, militaristic, bent on world conquest -- rose at once to be prime minister, because he had been right and poor Chamberlain was now a watchword for foolish idealism.
I think it's obvious Iran is developing the bomb just as North Korea is, and obvious that Iran means to obliterate Israel and also take over Iraq and Saudi Arabia and control the whole Middle Eastern area. The Persian Empire has quite a long history of controlling that whole area, after all: there's nothing new or remarkable about it. Manifest Destiny, from their point of view. I think it's a mistake to think the best possible about a nation that is clearly doing the worst and saying much worse even than that.
It's like all Hitler's speeches about how Jews were Germany's misfortune and internal enemies. Why did people assume he didn't really mean it?
He did mean it. IMO, Iran means it, too.