Michael Warner Quotes
Divide and conquer. Get your adversaries fighting among themselves
Michael Warner, Deputy Chief of CIA History Staff, Statement of a CIA Covert Operation Principle, The CIA's Internal Probe of the Bay of Pigs Affair
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There was a major revolution ongoing in Syria with different Arab Muslim factions slaughtering each other. The government side was particularly vicious shelling and using poison gas unarmed civilian enclaves in areas where the regime was not popular. Many nations called for humanitarian intervention. Netanyahu opposed any interventions while other politicians like President and former prime minister Shimon Peres disagreed and thought that Israel and other nations should intervene on humanitarian grounds and prevent the Assad government from butchering its own non-combatant civilians.
This quotation is important because it was typical of the view of many Muslims in the world in the beginning of the 21st century. However. What most of these Muslims ignore is the fact that Islamic Nations have ben warring with each other since there have been Islamic nations. In addition, the different Muslim sects have been brutally trying to exterminating each other since the death of The Prophet and civil war broke out over his successor.
When he assumed the presidency, Lyndon Johnson considered not renewing the appointment of FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, but finally decided to keep him: The quotation has its origin in a joke of the British Arabists about having a camel inside or outside of the tent. A similar phrase was used earlier by Winston Churchill to King George VI when the King asked him to form a government but advised him not to include Lord Beaverbrook.
Michael David Warner (born 1958) is an American literary critic, social theorist, and Seymour H. Knox Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Yale University. He also writes for Artforum, The Nation, The Advocate, and The Village Voice. He is the author of Publics and Counterpublics, The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life, The English Literatures of America, 1500–1800, Fear of a Queer Planet, and The Letters of the Republic. He edited The Portable Walt Whitman and American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr.
