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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 ...

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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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.

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

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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