Richard Aubrey wrote:
I find it curious that the tales Beauchamp told were mistakes that he would, himself, know were false based on his military training. In other words, he knows about Bradleys and run-flat tires and patrol SOPs.
He could bet the ranch that the TNR folks didn’t have a clue.
… But if he’d wanted to be more clever, he could have made the same points in ways which could not so easily be refuted. It would not have been difficult.
A puzzlement.
Richard,ave yo u ever interacted, on a personal level, with a sociopath of the sort that Beauchamp seems to be? A pathological liar is contemptuous of other people, and almost invariably is convinced that he is the smartest person in the room; he doesn’t seem to be par ticularly concerned about being caught. When you confront him on one of his lies, his reaction is to double down — to concoct a bigger lie for cover and dare you to disbelieve him. If you refute the second lie, he’ll be outraged at your attempt to smear his character, and he’ll concoct yet another lie.
I’ve seen several of these creatures in action. The patten fits Beauchamp all too well.
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