Jonathon Moore

“Dulce bellum inexpertis

"War is very sweet to those who have never tried it.”
― Erasmus

“Our infatuation with the unknown is systematically provoked and dismantled by a memetic campaign that's never less than astute in its grasp of human belief.”
― Mac Tonnies, The Cryptoterrestrials

“Not every flower belongs in every garden.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“The idea was that the NED would do somewhat overtly what the CIA had been doing covertly for decades, and thus, hopefully, eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities. Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing NED, declared in 1991: ‘A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.’6 NED receives virtually all its financing from the US government ($5 billion in total since 19917), but it likes to refer to itself as an NGO (non-governmental organization) because this helps to maintain a certain credibility abroad that an official US government agency might not have. But NGO is the wrong category. NED is a GO.”
― William Blum, America's Deadliest Export: Democracy The Truth about US Foreign Policy and Everything Else