Power intoxicates. Unbridled power is even more inebriating. It is the license to ingest as many gallons of alcohol as one sees fit while concurrently maneuvering the controls of an aviation tanker. Alas, this sort of calamitous excess would become Moammar Gaddafi. In forty-two years of absolute and untethered reign, Colonel Gaddafi was perfectly logical

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