"Those sons-of-bitches, who never have lifted a finger for us, why should we get involved in the morass of East Pakistan? ... [I]f East Pakistan becomes independent, it is going to become a cesspool. It’s going be 100 million people, they have the lowest standard of living in Asia. No resources. They’re going to become a ripe field for Communist infiltration."
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Henry Kissinger, quoted in G. J. Bass, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (2014)
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