On Mon, January 26, 2009 3:20 pm, Stefano Mori wrote:

> Well to come back to a mundane example, I tried this one with my wife.
>
> I turn up late, again. This time I figure, I won't apologize. Instead
> I'll save the apology for some future date when I have been on time
> for a significant period, thus proving that I really am genuine about
> being on time.

Might as well have offered a car analogy. Sorry, I don't think all things
scale linearly - what might work when lying to your wife won't necessarily
work on the world stage - the politics are in fact quite different.

For that matter, your wife is likely not going to wait for an apology -
the world can wait, the US isn't going to be forced to sleep on the sofa
unless it does. There's a huge difference.

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