IP: query re Moscow Times: A Bit of History of US/Middle East Despot relationships

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 11:46:35 -0500
> From: Steve Cohen <stevecoh1 () home com>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: Re: IP: Moscow Times: A Bit of History of US/Middle East 
> Despot  relationships
>
> I saw this article before and found it interesting.  There is one thing 
> about it that puzzles me.  Maybe someone on IP can clear it up.  At the 
> end the author quotes Solzhenitsyn:
>
> >Many years later, in Russia, a man named Solzhenitsyn harrowed the hell we
> make on earth and distilled a harsh wisdom into these stern lines: "The
> wolfhound is right; the cannibal is wrong."
>
> What was Solzhenitsyn's meaning in these lines?  I can't make head or tail 
> of it, at least not without some context.


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