We trained hard... but every time we began to form teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet new situations by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."   -- Petronius Arbiter  ~ 60 AD |
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From: www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm
Later in the conversation, Gilbert recorded Goering's observations that the common people can always be manipulated into supporting and fighting wars by their political leaders:
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... However, if the goal is an all-purpose excuse for various wars, the vagueness of "war on terror" makes perfect sense. As a warblogger might say, "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" (Holmquist) |
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