Kill Ugly Radio | Frank Zappa & Elsewhere: Frank Zappa news, weird links, lumpy gravy. Wanna bun?

 

Stating the Obvious

March 17th, 2003 • Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Looks like we’ll be waking up to war tomorrow morning. Funny, but somehow I expected this from a government made up of people like Donald Rumsfeld: “Rumsfeld often quotes a line from Al Capone: “You will get more with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone.” But should the guiding philosophy of the world’s leading democracy really be the tough talk of a Chicago mobster?”

This entry was posted on Monday, March 17th, 2003 at 4:33 pm by Barry's Imaginary Publisher and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Stating the Obvious”

  1. dmt says:

    Let us not forget the famous line from Theodore Roosevelt: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” I guess they’ve changed it. Nowadays the phrase reads: “Distribute a great deal of propaganda through the international press and pack a gargantuan, trillion dollar arsenal.”