bq. Throughout, he styled our meeting as a conversation between two profound political thinkers, a trope that approached the absurd when he observed that there were international organizations for many professions nowadays, but none for philosopher-kings. “Why don’t we make that happen?” he proposed with a straight face. I smiled, at a loss for words.
From Robert Putnam’s description of his 2007 meeting with Gadhafi. The article is “here”:http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703408604576164363053350664-lMyQjAxMTAxMDIwNjEyNDYyWj.html. Thanks to Daniel Lippman for sending it my way.