On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, SA wrote:
>> If you consider unintentional consequences the mark of a Great Man, then
>> he's your boy. Breaking up the SU was not what he was trying to do.
>
> Yes, that's absolutely right - the ultimate consequences were unintentional.
> (Unlike Lenin?) But I'm not nominating a Great Man in any normative sense,
> just a person whose individual actions were exceptionally historically
> consequential.
In that case, we live in the era of Bush.
Michael