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“This country has never experienced a commander in chief who is this unpredictable. And that surely is dangerous.”
The ancient Greek historian Herodotus once observed that Persian rulers indulged the habit of getting drunk when making important decisions. When sober and sensible next morning, their custom was to reconsider their decision, and either stick to it, or revise or reject it outright. They had another method of decision-making, he noted: they took decisions when sober, then affirmed or declined them when drunk.His story was probably apocryphal. But let’s for a …read more
Source: AlterNet
