Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmaneuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.
ATTRIBUTION:
James Baker (b. 1930), U.S. Republican politician, secretary of state. Quoted in Guardian (London, March 26, 1991).
Said of war correspondents in the Second Gulf War.