The “Baffle them with Bullshit” method of foreign policy?
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.
Gamal Abdel Nasser – Former Prime Minister of Egypt, 1967 – 1970
Quoted by Jonah Goldberg here
That works at home too!
Merle
I always like this quote about dealing with Americans-
One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine, is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine…
– From a Soviet Junior Lt’s Notebook