>I was thinking more of the Brezhnev years, which are
>my general frame of reference, but you'd be surprised
>the extent to which people were capable of
>compartmentalizing things. (My own family managed to
>support Hitler even though the Nazis sterilized one
>family member and euthanized another.)
Christian Parenti says that people he'd talked to who hated Saddam Hussein a year ago - including some who were tortured by his regime - now praise him to the skies. When he reminded them of their earlier feelings, they denied them.
Doug