Ponder the glories of the smartness and resolve of the Obama administration in foreign policy if they were quoted throughout history.
Julius Caesar: "I came, I saw, I dithered."
John Paul Jones: "I have not yet begun to decide!"
Napoleon: "If you start to take Vienna--take 2 or 3 days and then wrap it up."
Oliver Hazard Perry: "We have met the enemy, and they are people we can do business with."
Napoleon's standing order: "March to the sound of the applause."
Von Clausewitz: "Proportionate, limited strikes, without boots on the ground, are a continuation of politics by other means."
Ulysses S. Grant: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all weekend."
Nathan Bedford Forrest: "Get there whenever--it doesn't really matter--with the minimum of cruise missiles plausible."
William Tecumseh Sherman: "An unbelievably small strike is Hell."
Ralph Waldo Emerson: "When you strike a king, you must degrade his capabilities."
Unnamed chaplain at Pearl Harbor: "Praise the Lord and pass the resolution." (At some level I prefer "Praise The One and parse the dissimulation.")
Stalin: "Quandary has a quality all its own."
George C. Scott as Patton: "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by sending a message to the other poor, dumb bastard."
Five years into the presidency, and here we are on foreign policy and matters of war.
UPDATE: Dang. Meant to post this tomorrow but posted it to this morning, and it got some hits before I could revert to draft. So here you go. Enjoy. If that's the word.
UPDATE: Thanks to Mad Minerva for the link. If you can't LOL you'll cry, at this point.
UPDATE: And thanks to Stones Cry Out for the link.
UPDATE: Via Mad Minerva, P. J. O'Rourke has fun with quotes, too.