I've met quite a few dictators up close and personal in my life.
It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.
For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.
The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.
That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.