Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Quote of the Day...for 38 years and counting
Groucho sez: “Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
(But that’s not the quote of the day...keep reading)
In every military intervention, we are warned there will be cases when the good guys are left with no choice but to fight fire with fire. Perhaps the most notorious example was an unnamed U.S. major, quoted by Associated Press—38 years ago today—on February 8, 1968.
Asked about the U.S. assault on the Vietnamese town of Bentre, the major explained: "It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it."
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