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Reader comment on item: Erdoğan Fails to Conquer New York City
Submitted by David W. Lincoln (Canada), Sep 23, 2014 at 18:18
He sees what he wants to see, and others, not him, are to blame for difficulties.
Self-deception is the only explanation I can come up with, to explain both things.
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