Presidents are just overgrown boys

This gem is from a 1977 copy of TIME magazine: "I could not hold back my armed forces!" shouted President Anwar Sadat on Egyptian TV, furiously pounding a desk for emphasis. "Yesterday and today, they gave him a lesson he will never forget."

The "he" in question was Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and the lesson Sadat was talking about involved Egypt’s awesome army and air force pummeling Libya’s "small" 30,000-man army. Cairo sent tanks and mechanised infantry from two divisions of the First Egyptian Army and beat the daylights out of Tripoli’s two brigades as its commando and paratrooper battalions dropped behind enemy lines and the air force bombed Libyan cities and military bases to cinder.