Comments: KARL KRAUS.

Hi language hat,

"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."

And I would add, in comparison to the economic payoff.

The quote is by Ronald Reagan, by the way.

ME


Posted by Enigmatic Marmalade at March 29, 2003 07:43 AM

Talking of wars starting when everyone concerned thinks they are a bad thing, but start them anyway....

....a week ago I had dinner in Cologne with a charming painter called Alexander Schlieffen who is the great {+great?} grand nephew of the designer of Germany's Schlieffen Plan for attacking France in World War One.

Posted by mark at March 29, 2003 10:27 AM

As my great uncle Karl noted, The miserable thing about patriots is not the hatred they have for every other country, but the love they have for their own...

Posted by Eric Kraus at November 22, 2003 05:59 AM