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Quote:I don't know the answer, but I'd suggest asking on the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written. There are people there who can identify SF stories from significantly flimsier information than this.
"Beware the honorable man of peace who is forced to war. He will do anything necessary to end the conflict in his favor in order to protect his own and restore the peace." -- Unknown, as paraphrased in "Best Served Cold" by Robert Knighton
This quote has been bugging the hell out of me for a long time. I got it second-hand, and the source -- Robert Knighton -- can't remember where he first saw it. It's a paraphrase of a passage from an SF novel he read some 20 years ago, he said, with cat-like aliens and humans unwillingly drawn into some conflict as neutral observers, but he couldn't remember either title or author. Over the past year or so, no one has been able to identify what book this could be; any reader who can, I'll give a credit to on this chapter.