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J. Goard's avatar

One wise person's moral summary of WWII:

The windiest militant trash

Important Persons shout

Is not so crude as our wish:

What mad Nijinsky wrote

About Diaghilev

Is true of the normal heart;

For the error bred in the bone

Of each woman and each man

Craves what it cannot have,

Not universal love

But to be loved alone.

-- Auden, "September 1, 1939"

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Archibald Stein's avatar

It is my understanding that the Madeline Albright thing is BS. The estimated death toll was a lie by the Iraqi government. Maybe the claim that the death toll is a lie is itself a lie, I don't know.

The quote comes from Albright being asked a yes or no question, for which either answer would be hugely controversial. There's an argument to be made that this wasn't a fair way to explore the topic by the interviewer.

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