C. J. Cherryh Quotes
Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.
Cherryh, C. J. Cyteen. Warner Books, 1988.
What is particularly interesting about this passage is that a Middle Eastern contemporary historian and commentator compared circumstances to political events with the Umayyads and the Abbisids to those in Persia and Rome. Chosroes (Khosrow) was a Persian King who had his brothers murdered, and Caesar was viewed as a tyrant. Even then, the history of politics, in one country influenced events and attitudes in others,
He was a zealous monarchist who used all means necessary to defend the monarchy of Queen Isabel II.
Bhutto, after Pakistan’s defeat by India, initiated a massive nuclear bomb development program which was contrary to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation policy of the United States. Bhutto went ahead anyway and soon Pakistan had a nuclear capability, much to the distress of the other nuclear powers in the world.
This intelligence analysis turned out to predict exactly what happened. Less than 3 years after this report, the Communists overran South Korea and the Korean War began. See {584008} for another remarkable foreign policy prediction.
This quotation provides an insight into Stalin’s bizarre and ruthless character.
Holland was officially Napoleon’s ally, but he and the French military leaders were not satisfied with the military or logistical support they were getting from the Dutch. Field Marshal Marmont was sent to Holland to “improve” the situation. When one of his demands seemed excessive a delegation of leading Dutch politicians met with him and reminded him that Holland was a sovereign country and France military officers could not issue orders in Holland. This was his famous response.
Carolyn Janice Cherry, better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in her Alliance–Union universe. She is known for "world building", depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology.
