Quicksand Quotes

“Edmund Burke: “When things go wrong we are always tempted to ask not how we got into this difficulty, but how we are to get out of it . . . to consult our invention and to reject our experience.” Yet, Burke concluded, such thinking is “diametrically opposed to every rule of reason, and every good principle of good sense.”
― Geoffrey Wawro, Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East