"There is a chicken-or-egg question here: Does our government's foreign policy apparatus operate under the Kool Kids Rules of high school, choosing our friends and enemies based on how well they dress? Or do our enemies operate under the Goth Rules of high school, deliberately making defiant fashion choices as a semiotic protest against us? It's probably a little bit of both."
David Sirota in Salon explores the sartorial choices of dictators.
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