A Tangled Web

WHY POLITICIANS LIE.



Here's an interesting article on the serial weakness of successive Israeli Prime Ministers by Daniel Pipes. I think the reasons he offers for why it is that each of Israel's PM's betray their word of honour applies to most politicians everywhere! "Grandiosity and egoism" - what a wonderfully accurate turn of phrase. The problem here is that finding a "modest politician" is tricky - I can think of a few...Ronald Reagan being the most noteworthy...but the term is oxymoronic I fear.