“”I read the book 25-30 years ago, and remembered the line and have been using it post-9/11.””
That is great - I would have looked it up one day and forgotten it by the next but I’m sure you’re not as “aged” as I am...I really enjoyed the book...
Sometimes lines or passages in a book really make an impression on me, and that was one of them. It explained a lot of cultural issues regarding Islamic Arabs that I’d not understood. I’d read a lot of modern military history of Israel and the Arab wars before that, but those really didn’t give me proper cultural insights.
Changing subjects entirely, go see the 2-paragraph Hayek quote on my profile page. I think it’s the 3rd one down. It made a huge impression on me as well, really made a light bulb go off, on the similarity of the Nazi/Fascist/Communist totalitarian systems.