Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig
@cameraman502 @neontaster @TankieSanders @conor64 The line comes from Jean Dutourd, who was writing about the French experience of WWI & II in 1957. His point was that there's a virulent kind of expansionist politics that can't be tempered or negotiated with, only fought to the death (Verdun) or surrendered to (Dachau) — PolitiTweet.org