We tend to see the behavior of others as more planned and coordinated than our own Former secretary of state he has described the United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war as behaving like "two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision." Each, according to Kissinger, "tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time even two armed blind men in a
room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room