Why Leaders Lie

This is why fearmongering and strategic cover-ups are the most dangerous kinds of lies that leaders can tell.

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Serge Schmemann of the New York Times called me out of the blue

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The same harsh assessment of the public’s ability to think wisely that underpins fearmongering underpins strategic cover-ups.

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However, the fact that lying is widely perceived to be wicked behavior is one reason that people like to talk about the subject. It gets the juices flowing.

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The United States spends more on its military than the rest of the world put together… insulated from most dangers by two enormous oceans.

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I told him that I had never thought about the subject and I did not think there was much, if any, scholarly literature on international lying.

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my claim that statesmen and diplomats do not lie to each other very often

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it can also lead to disasters like Iraq and Vietnam.

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