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No my son, the pity is all ours. Naivety is something you can grow out of, stupidity is, I am afraid, quite a different matter.
The dumbing down process is obviously further advanced than I had originally thought.
Your second paragraph is actually an excellent description of the very same RJ Hawke you leap to defend. If you had ever met him you would understand it to be true.
He treated everyone with contempt, never thought about anything other than his own self gratification and bent morality whenever it suited his purposes. In a nutshell he deserves the Fires of Hell that most surely await him.
And all this would still be true even if he had no role in the 1989 fiasco.