Slog - Comments on Quote of the Day http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/quote_of_the_day_1 In today's Sunday NYT "Word for Word" column, there's an excerpt from an exchange between Henry Kissinger and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Kissinger is meeting Brezhnev in Moscow in 1972 during a secret summit about the Vietnam War. I won't bore you with the whole thing. But I love how cocky Brezhnev is. Brezhnev is saying American foreign policy is reckless because the American people didn't suffer during WWII like the Russians. He caps it with this fantastic line: The average American is just not familiar with this, has not gone through this, and his mind is conditioned entirely differently...Americans... Copyright 2008 Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:27:31 -0800 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:25:38 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by And I Am Not Charles Mudede Shit Kruschev, you were a fucking visionary! You knew Rock n' Roll was dull light years before indie rock hit the scene!

(I kid...sort of)

]]> And I Am Not Charles Mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/quote_of_the_day_1#c578298 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/quote_of_the_day_1#c578298 History Mon, 25 Dec 2006 05:44:13 -0800 Comment by Dougsf Of course he's right about Americans being a bit cavalier regarding foreign policy because our geography has always insulated of from the true hardships of wartime, but still... Why is it the first thing I picture after reading that is a cartoon of KISS fighting the Soviet Army in Red Square? Fuck Kruschev.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/quote_of_the_day_1#c578522 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/quote_of_the_day_1#c578522 History Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:25:38 -0800