Horcrus disposal (was Re: The List update)

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
>
> in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/3343
> "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> 
> > Turning into a snake is the pulp fiction equivalent of chasing all
> > the really clever scientists out of the country or starting an 
Asian
> > land war. The fact that it never works doesn't seem to register.
> 
> 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?

Geoff:
I might join Eustace_Scrubb in a little pedantry to while away the 
time and agree that I doubt whether Eisenhower would have made a 
remark like that over Suez (which I, sadly, remember) because Suez 
ain't in Asia, it's in Africa....