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Gad Saad

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1973 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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facilitating mechanism that rendered them amorous on that particular night.

Whatever that mechanism is, it is absolutely true that we can lay the blame, some blame of that dictator eventually killing 3 million people.

He would have never been born had they not had sex exactly at that moment.

I think that's a bit of a stretch.

In that position.

Qaddafi, the way you made him out to be was, I mean, he was Robin Hood, right?

Qaddafi was a pretty nasty guy.

Especially in those regions of the world where if you don't have an incredibly strong armed guy, then religion comes in and it becomes a strong guy.

So you have it in Egypt.

You have it with Saddam Hussein.

Hafez al-Assad and then his son.

So those guys are, if you're a universalist who wishes for individual liberties and freedoms to flourish for everybody around the world, then you're probably not supporting these guys.

But by the way, that last sentence.

I would argue that that's because of the Americans' lack of cultural theory of mind.

Because they presume that the desire to have democracy around the world is exactly what everybody wants.

And therefore, they're culturally blind to the fact that other places around the world may not share our own affinity for democracy.

So the Americans come in, they create a bad set of ecosystems that permits for ISIS to flourish.