One keeps lines of communication as long as there is hope of progress. Lizzie Borden settled her affairs with her parents much as the US did with the Hitler regime without phlanxes of mincing cooky pushers. One must recognize that diplomats have their time and place, and sometimes its out in the sand boxwhile adults take measures in hand.

You missed this one cite, about the perils of retribution:

Look what they did to my little boy- Clausewitz

What about that great quote in answer to those wanting show mercy when holding strategic advantage?

“I don’t feel I have to wipe everybody out. Just my enemies.” - Erwin Rommel

When in doubt, shoot! Saves having to pull a knife out of your back later.

“When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk.”

Tuco Huckabee

What part of “unconditional” didn’t you get? U.S. Grant

Leave the gun, take the cannoli.

“What have I ever done to make you to treat me so disrespectfully. If you had come to me in friendship then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies then they would become my enemies. And then, they would fear you.”

John Jay, Federalist 103.

“You get much more with a sword and a smile than just a smile alone”

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six!

He who has the gold makes the rules.

- Sermon on the Mount

Greed is good.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

Excuse me while I whip this out.

From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee. For hate’s sake, I spit my last my last breath at thee.

Oh, you ready to blow? Well I’m a mushroom-cloud-laying motherfucker, motherfucker! Everytime my fingers touch brain I’m Superfly TNT, I’m the Guns of the Navarone.

With great power comes great responsibility.

- from the tomb of an ancient Apache chief

Who farted?

Think of how stupid the average evangelical is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

Let’s do it for johnny!

“Guiliani sleeps with the fishes.”

“dr kill”:

Piss off, you bigoted wanker. Don’t come back here.

Houston, we have a problem!

Like warm apple pie.

What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

Jesus wept.

It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.

It’s so easy, when everyone’s tryin’ to please me, baby!

“Don’t ask me about my business, Kay.” — General Vo Nguyen Giap.

“Very funny Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.”

Dang, ho. Excellent fellatio, then, is not an act but a habit. You my bitch?

You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.….

They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the Chicago way!

Dr Kill isn’t smart enough to realize the difference between average and median. /irony

See-Dub,

I believe that it is Machiavelli that gave us the basis for the quote. In The Prince, chapter nine, paragraph five reads as follows:

“Therefore, to make this point clearer, I say that the nobles ought to be looked at mainly in two ways: that is to say, they either shape their course in such a way as binds them entirely to your fortune, or they do not. Those who so bind themselves, and are not rapacious, ought to be honoured and loved; those who do not bind themselves may be dealt with in two ways; they may fail to do this through pusillanimity and a natural want of courage, in which case you ought to make use of them, especially of those who are of good counsel; and thus, whilst in prosperity you honour yourself, in adversity you have not to fear them. But when for their own ambitious ends they shun binding themselves, it is a token that they are giving more thought to themselves than to you, and a prince ought to guard against such, and to fear them as if they were open enemies, because in adversity they always help to ruin him.”

While it doesn’t state planly “Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer,” the gist is still present in the passage.

Thomas

You broke my heart. YOU BROKE MY HEART!!!

Eat sh-t and have the taste in your mouth m-f’er then die.

Marine Corp

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl harbor?

We go to the mattresses

“I come in peace, I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f**k with me, I’ll kill you all.” General James Mattis, to Iraqi tribal leaders. That opening statement apparently got the attention needed at a key meeting that eventually led to the Anbar Awakening.

More wisdom from Marine General Mattis: “Be polite, be professional but have a plan to kill everyone you meet!”

“Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothin to fuck wit.”

Listen to me. Learn from me. I was not the best because I killed quickly. I was the best because the crowd loved me. Win the crowd and you will win your freedom.

It’s a hell of a thing, killin’ a man. You take away all he’s got, and all he’s ever gonna have.

Heh. That’s all I can say about this knucklehead at this point. He’s Bill Clinton — the Clenis — all over again. That’s all he is.

But the press is only playing nice with him to get him in the general election against the Clenis and his cuckolded wife. When it’s Hillary v the Huckster, we are going to see the most concerted attack on one candidate from the secular press that you have ever seen.

Every idiotic evangelical quote, every postion that we wish we were hearing about now will come out then.

Alternative ling to Godfather Part II quote:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/quotes

Yes, Puzo & Coppola have Michael Corleone saying that line, but that’s because they’re familiar with the writings of Sun Tzu and of Machiavelli. Here’s a perfect example the same idea appearing in different cultures, mind-piss, as they say on b3ta.com, when two cartoonists express the same idea in response to a challenge.

Even more amusing is that the quote, regardless of who said it, clearly implies the intent to deceive your enemies. Sun-Tzu, Machiavelli, and Corleone all regarded negotiation as a means to a later ends of defeating your opponent, a point which the Iranians seem to understand all too well.

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