To return to contemporary themes, the London-based journalist, Gwynne Dyer, has frankly proclaimed: "I have written tens of thousands of words on the Bush administration's motives for invading Iraq, but in the end I do not know why they did it. I suspect that they don't, either. It just seemed like a neat idea at the time. (http://www.gwynnedyer.net/articles/Gwynne%20Dyer%20article_%20%20It's%20All%20About%20Oil.txt)" Those who admire the west for its fine universities and huge libraries would do better to turn their gaze in the other direction.
The 20th century, and the beginning of the 21st, if no other, have proved Socrates wrong and Plato right.
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