PSCI 2401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Laguardia Airport, Intellectual Capital, Distinct Society
27 Sep 2016
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Role of a politician is not to be entirely truthful but to be entirely peacefully. History of humans is history of democide/murder: in can we"re worried about every single death. *history of humans is also enslaving your neighbour and making them do your work for you. Diff kinds of lying omission, overstating, understating. The reason that us overestimated iraqi confidence was b/c they underestimated them before. Knowingly appointed incompetent ambassador (older bush thought that iraq was nothing: ambassador supposed to speak to iraqi foreign minister, they said no saddam wants to talk to you. She didn"t call washington beforehand (like she was supposed to) Saddam said quait was stealing iraqi oil instead of consulting washington she said that it"s not us policy to intervene in neighbouring country"s affairs (he took this as the us won"t intervene but obviously they did)
