“Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.”
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
On American foreign policy
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.”
Advice to American diplomats
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”
On the war in Afghanistan
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.”