he famous quote is often misattributed to Pershing.
thus sayeth Wikepedia.
At least I’m in good, or at least numerous, company.
your tagline — WWIII Islam versus the West — is what I was groping for. Apparently we’re going to be late to this ballgame just like we were to the last two.
Well at least one of them said it, and that’s more than what a lot of famous “quotes” have going for them.
In that era Americans still remembered our debt to France. Without Admiral de Grasse’s fleet and 3,000 French marines we couldn’t have trapped Cornwallis at Yorktown.