William Safire Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: December 17, 1929 - September 27, 2009
Birthday: December 17
Death: September 27
I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.
topic: Religious, Peace, War, Declaration Of War, Nukes, Civilized Nations
