The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. – Aesop
As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a Near Great even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. – Thomas Frank