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

[Waldo Glatisant]

--- eloise_herisson <eloiseherisson at ...> wrote:

> --- 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
> 

This quote was also repeated to great effect by
Wallace Shawn as "Vizzini" in *The Princess Bride.* 


		
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