The Hubris of a
President
07/08/05 11:16 Filed by Saswat Pattanayak in:
Reference
“Until we go through it ourselves, until our people
cower in the shelters of New York, Washington,
Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the
buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames,
and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over
for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to
find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes
gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished
— only after that gruesome experience will we
realize what we are inflicting on the people of
Indochina...”
-William Shirer, author of The Rise and Fall of the
Third Reich, 1973.
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