Anne Beatts Quotes
The great thing is that I'm getting my revenge on everybody who treated me badly in high school. The bad thing is I had to go back to high school to do it.
Bennetts, Leslie. "An Alumna of 'S.N.L.' Creates 'Square Pegs'." The New York Times, 26 Sept. 1982, p. 27.
The Minister equates the unintended consequences of war and civilian casualties with a terrorist retaliation which has as its purpose the killing of as many civilians as possible. The proliferation of terrorism complicated the ethics of counter terrorism. In the case of Palestinian terrorists their tactics included using civilian facilities---schools, hospitals, homes---from which to launch rocket attacks or to store weapons or hide terrorists. Under international laws of war, a civilian facility and the civilians in it become legitimate military targets the minute that weapons are stored in or fired from that location or that location is used for planning, training, equipping or manufacturing of military material. Palestinian terrorists claim that even though civilians were harmed in legitimate, legal attacks on military targets, a proper response is to send suicide bombers into civilian areas and preparing the explosives with nails and rat poison to cause as much pain as possible.
See Robert Southey for the later version 400 years later which is more familiar to us.
The nation was in the midst of a major steel strike and the President felt that the steel companies had reneged on their promises:
Anne Beatts was an American comedy writer.
