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     %THEORY CONTROL INFLUENCE ENCOURAGE MOTIVATION+940714
    %MILITARY DICTATOR TERRORIST ADDICT CODEPENDENT+940714
  %WAR ATTACK INVADE OVERCOME SURRENDER GOVERN LOVE+940714
    %MANIPULATE PREDICT RESPONSE BEHAVIOR REBELLION+940714
      %DILEMMA TECHNICAL PROBLEM TRAGIC CONSEQUENCE 940714

     When  dealing with the dilemma of a single  addictive
or  codependent  person  who  is  involved  in   collusive
behavior patterns---it is exceedingly difficult to predict
how the person will respond  to  any other person's effort
to influence/change the first person's pattern of beliefs,
thoughts,   attitudes, intentions,  ideals,  values and/or
expectations.    In the absence of an ability  to  predict
what the first person's  likely  response  will be---it is
exceedingly  difficult  for the second  person  to  choose
among  alternatives  as  to  how to seek to  engender  any
healthy influence or change.

     The  international dilemmas  presented by a  military
dictatorship   within   a   nation-state,  greatly  exceed
those  presented  by  a single  addictive  or  codependent
person for at least the following reasons:

     1.  The alienation/estrangement between the principle
dictatorial   leaders  and  the  "outsiders"   is  usually
greater.

     2.  Because  of the  greater  alienation/estrangement
there is a higher level of ignorance and misunderstanding.

     3.  Because  of the number of persons who are  formal
and  informal  codependent supporters of  the  dictatorial
principals  AND  principles---the resistance to change  is
bound to be far greater than when dealing with one  person
with  relatively  little official power.   One is  dealing
with  an "Addictive Organization"  which has  far  greater
inertia   to   change  than does  one  "Addictive  Person"
alone.

     4.  The "Addictive Organization"  usually has  access
to more weapons of  violent  coercion  and  more  power to
destroy/disintegrate  than  does the  single,   "Addictive
Person".

     5.  By  virtue  of  how many dictatorial leaders  are
involved,  it is  exceedingly  difficult to  engender  any
change in their collective pattern of  beliefs,  thoughts,
attitudes, intentions, ideals, values and/or expectations.
Each member of a dictatorial leadership is a participant
in a complex but hidden web of collusive  games  of mutual
self-deception,   and each person is fearful of  violating
the tacit rules  of  the  games---so  fear  dominates  all
considerations but the fear must  not be dealt with openly
and honestly; for that would be a "sign of weakness."

     6.  The  bystander citizens and  relatively powerless
victims of the dictatorial leaders  are  more likely to be
victimized  by  international  efforts  to  pressure   the
dictatorial  leaders  to  change---than  the   dictatorial
leaders  are likely  to  be  victimized  by  international
efforts.   Dictatorial  leaders always insulate themselves
from  the  masses  upon whom they depend  for  support.

7.  The  relatively  successful  self-help  programs
patterned  after  Alcoholics Anonymous,  depend critically
upon  the  willingness  of  the  dysfunctional  person  to
participate in open and honest dialogue.   The more people
who  are involved in an "Addictive Organization"  the more
difficult it is to get the organization as an organization
meaningfully involved in helpful dialogue; and coercion is
rarely helpful.

     8.  Military  responses  to the power of  a  military
dictatorship tend to entail surrender to the leadership of
the  military  dictatorship  in  regards  to  methodology,
style, and the collective pattern  of  beliefs,  thoughts,
attitudes, intentions, ideals, values and/or expectations.
The  dilemma is similar to the dilemma of the  codependent
spouse in a case of domestic addiction and abuse.

     9.  There are often significant cultural  differences
between the military leaders,  and the "powerful"  persons
in  other  nations  who  have  become  interested  in  and
concerned  about   the   dysfunctional  behaviors  of  the
military dictators.  Often, they have little in common and
corresdpondingly, little grounds for trusting each other.

     10.  The risks which are present have much to do with
misunderstandings   and  fear  of  violent  manipulations,
resulting behaviors are usually  dominated  by fear rather
than enlightened and lightened by love.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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