So, once again, back to the question - just what IS power? Is it perhaps no more than a deadly mutation of ambition, one that may or may not translate into social activity? Any fool, any moron, any psychopath can aspire to the seizure and exercise of power, and of course the more psychopathic, the more efficient: Hitler, Pol Pot, ID Amin, Sergeant Doe and the latest in the line of the unconscionably driven, our own lately departed General Sunni Apache - all have proved that power, as long as you are sufficiently ruthless, amoral and manipulative, is within the grasp of even the mentally deficient.

Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World