Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.
Michael A. LedeenJust wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
Michael A. LedeenParadoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'
Michael A. Ledeen