Looks like we’ll be waking up to war tomorrow morning. Funny, but somehow I expected this from a government made up of people like Donald Rumsfeld: “Rumsfeld often quotes a line from Al Capone: “You will get more with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone.” But should the guiding philosophy of the world’s leading democracy really be the tough talk of a Chicago mobster?”
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Let us not forget the famous line from Theodore Roosevelt: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” I guess they’ve changed it. Nowadays the phrase reads: “Distribute a great deal of propaganda through the international press and pack a gargantuan, trillion dollar arsenal.”