On 6/27/2014 4:20 AM, LizR wrote:
On 27 June 2014 15:57, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:It's called realpolitik. Do you want the President to choose who to support based on their morality and disregard the national interest? And how would you measure their morality? Maybe the real plan is to keep any one murderous faction from winning so they keep fighting till they've all killed each other.That's the traditional idea, as recommended by Machiavelli. He knew a thing or two (although I try not to apply maxims like "it is better to be feared than loved" to my child-rearing...)
Indeed. When I had a new branch head come to work under me, I used to recommend that they read Machevelli's "The Prince" and C. Northcote Parkinson's "Parkinson's Law".
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