Dueling Libya quotes of the day
Here are two quotes of the day, both from Andrew Roberts’ Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945 (about FDR, Churchill, Marshall and Brooke), which I was reading on my flight across the country on Friday while some of you hijacked the blog. For those opposing intervention: "This Libyan ...
Here are two quotes of the day, both from Andrew Roberts' Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945 (about FDR, Churchill, Marshall and Brooke), which I was reading on my flight across the country on Friday while some of you hijacked the blog.
For those opposing intervention: "This Libyan ' fiasco' is the immediate problem. Winston is very depressed. He had built so many hopes on this offensive."-British war planner Sir John Kennedy, 1941
For those favoring intervention: "I thought of giving up cigars till we were back in Benghazi."-Winston Churchill, October 1942
Here are two quotes of the day, both from Andrew Roberts’ Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945 (about FDR, Churchill, Marshall and Brooke), which I was reading on my flight across the country on Friday while some of you hijacked the blog.
For those opposing intervention: "This Libyan ‘ fiasco’ is the immediate problem. Winston is very depressed. He had built so many hopes on this offensive."-British war planner Sir John Kennedy, 1941
For those favoring intervention: "I thought of giving up cigars till we were back in Benghazi."-Winston Churchill, October 1942
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