OT mysterious quote (was: Horcrus disposal (was Re: The List update))

[eloise_herisson]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
>
>> I somehow long ago imbibed the belief that Eisenhower said, in
> reference to the Suez crisis (1956 - before I was born), "Never get
> involved in a land war on the Asian continent." It was a wonderful
> quote when people were discussing the Vietnam War and it was again a
> wonderful quote when people discussed the Gulf and Iraq Wars.
> 
> But Lee locked herself in a room with Google and emerged after a 
long
> time, saying that Eisenhower had never said any such thing. So who 
did?


It was MacArthur, and it *did* refer to Vietnam.

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=994381


~Eloise