Divide and Conquer Quotes
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.
Bush was addressing all countries in the wake of the September 11 attack on New York and Washington.
He works were banned and he was banished by both the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese during the Vietnam War where he tried to be a mediator and was present at the Paris Peace Talks. As late as 2007 he was still not allowed into Vietnam.
The rich whites won the class war by splitting the poor and working class with race hatred and then coopting one half—the poor whites so that neither the poor whites or blacks obtained much and even into the 21st century the poor of the American South were the worst off of all the poor in America.
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.
See {633112} for his most famous quotation on the subject.
Vladimir Lenin. Globalization and international competitiveness made this even worse a century later.