Korea: The Limited War [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION When foreign affairs were ruled by autocracies or oligarchies the danger of war was in sinister purpose. When foreign affairs are ruled by democracies the danger of war will be in mistaken beliefs. Euhu Root There is . . . but one response possible from us: Force, Force to the utmost, Force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the world. . . . WooDROw Wilson The objective of war was conceived to be victory, that of diplomacy, peace. Neither could reinforce the other, and each began where the other left off. Henry Kissinger the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient we cannot always impose our will we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity . . . there cannot be an American solution for every world problem. . . . John F. Kennedy In the autumn of 1915 the US Acting Secretary of War, Henry Breckinridge, was summoned to the presence of Woodrow Wilson. The President was trembling and white with rage and pointed to a newspaper report that the General StafE was preparing plans for the possibility of war with Germany. Was this true? Breckinridge replied that he did not know. Whereupon Wilson directed him to find out, and if the report were true, to relieve every officer on the General StafE and order him out of Washington. Wilson's anger on this occasion would have been shared by most of his fellow-countrymen, and at any time since in most Western democracies a similar such revelation of military planning would arouse the wrath of many liberal-minded people. The story therefore not only illustrates the point that from the Revolurion to the present day liberalism is the dominant American political philosophy, but that liberalism is invariably hostile X