Originally posted by: Craig234
Originally posted by: ranmaniac
?Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.? - Henry Kissinger
I tried to send a PM about your sig, but you are not accepting them, so I'll post this:
I like your sig quote, but it's slightly inaccurate.
The actual quote is from Bob Boodward quoting Kissinger, and should read:
?Military men are dumb, stupid animals" [to be used as pawns for foreign policy].
- Henry Kissinger
The quoted text is Woodward quoting his source quoting Kissinger; the latter text is Woodward's paraphrasing of the context.
It was one of Kissinger's many reported snubs to Al Haig.
Read Seymour Hersh's "The Price of Power" for an interesting description of the back-stabbing culture in the Nixon White House between Kissinger and the military.