The end of Hussein’s dream

A comment by yours truly at Lucianne.com:

Reply 41—Posted by: Larry, 12/15/2003 9:44:02 AM

#12 wrote: “After eight months of being a hunted varmint, and when he has quiet thoughts, does Saddam question whether his years in power were real or an extended hallucination?”

According to Plato (The Republic, Book IX), the tyrant lives in an extended hallucination, a dream state in which he feels free to act out every desire, no matter how perverse.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at December 15, 2003 09:50 AM | Send