"Persian oil is yours. We share the oil of Iraq and Kuwait. as for Saudi Arabian oil, it's ours." Franklin Roosevelt to Lord Halifax, dividing up the Middle East, 1944.
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CIA report describing the 1953 coup in Iran: "It was a day that should never have ended. For it carried with it such a sense of excitement, of satisfaction and of jubilation that it is doubtful if any other can come up to it."
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Yeah, we can be such imperial dickwads.
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Once had my hair cut sitting next to George F. Kennan, at Jack Honrae's in Princeton. When he left, the barber, who called him "Ambassador", pointed his comb and told me, "He's an egghead."
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