I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.
Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well.

