Quotations
- For only 72 hours have the Americano-British troops crossed the border of Kuwait. The intensive air campaign on Iraq (...) has begun only 48 hours ago. However (...) the quagmire theme is already showing through in the newspapers. There we see the impatient desire of the redactions to see the Americans and British suffer in their endeavour. The good thing with starting by a nuanceless striking war prediction is that at the first sign of a problem, you can already dramatise. The framework for the general media slip is in place.
- The French press stays focused on the sweet revenge which it thinks it holds against those who despised the "Peace side", France and its ever-lucide journalists.
- Serge July stays on his obsession: the "worst case scenario". Ready ? Go ! "One might have raised concerns, but worse is actually happening", the director of Libération delects himself. "The failure of the American military parade in the desert, supposed to make the regime implose within a few days, is a drawback for Donald Rumsfeld and the bunch of Dr. Strangelove of an imposed democracy". He feels however that the "statisfaction will be short". Because we will see a "real war". Confronted to "the necessity to win at all cost", the United States will cause "thousands of victims" among the civilian Iraqi population, and this while "sacrifying hundreds of GIs, perhaps thousands". This will Serge July's unvoluntary April Fool's editorial.
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“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)