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> On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, SA wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> In that case, we live in the era of Bush.
I take your point, but do you really think the Iraq invasion is of the same magnitude as the collapse of Communism?
SA