Will Durst Quotes
Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars.
Durst, Will. Quoted in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, edited by Robert Byrne, Touchstone, 2003.
Britain was mired in Iraq. They had, as the U. S. would do about 80 years later, gone into Iraq without a viable exist strategy.
He was very sensitive to the criticism of China’s human rights record. The Chinese leadership was very proud to their accomplishments of lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and eliminating hunger and starvation, and many foreigners from developed nations were seemingly inattentive to the remarkable economic success in their focus on human rights shortcomings.
Lee was trying to negotiate a peace treaty as a part of his his potential surrender. However, Grant would not be drawn into that, Lee was NOT the government of the Confederacy, and Grant had served with him earlier in the Mexican War and knew he was not a fanatic on teh subject of slavery and race as most of the Southern leaders were. They werenthe ones who would have to be captured or driven to surrender. Grant could have gotten authoirioty as he was in almost real time contact with President Lincoln by telegraph. However, neither wanted to negotiate peace with Lee. Instead, Grant gave Lee and his men incredibly gracious termsof surrender which he and Lincoln hoped would casue the avarage Southern soldiers to feel better about surrender for although Lee's was the largest Confederate Army, there were still others out there that had to be dealt with,
Will Durst is an American political satirist; he has been called a modern mix of Mort Sahl and Will Rogers.
