Allied forces must win big enough to change Iraq’s politics. It is not sufficient to drive Saddam from Kuwait, waggle a minatory finger at him, and say, “Be a good boy and don’t ever do that again.” (Thomas A. Stewart, War/Cover Stories: Winning the Peace, Fortune, 02/25/1991, p. 28.)
Monday, June 10 [1940], found Churchill in a foul mood. Italy had declared war on Britain and France, drawing from him a minatory quip: “People who go to Italy to look at ruins won’t have to go as far as Naples and Pompeii in the future.” (Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile, [Crown], 2020, p. 61.)
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