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Non-Partisan Politicsmanship

The politician who protests that “national security should not become a political issue” is sure to be either a) trying to make political points by saying that national security should not become a political issue, or b) afraid that his party is at a disadvantage on the defense question, or c) Dwight Eisenhower, who, we must concede, may mean what he says. The presumption, in other words, is that no politician (excepting possibly Eisenhower) could have gotten where he is with such deficient understanding of how the American political system does and should work.

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Non-Partisan Politicsmanship

The politician who protests that “national security should not become a political issue” is sure to be either a) trying to make political points by saying that national security should not become a political issue, or b) afraid that his party is at a disadvantage on the defense question, or c) Dwight Eisenhower, who, we must concede, may mean what he says. The presumption, in other words, is that no politician (excepting possibly Eisenhower) could have gotten where he is with such deficient understanding of how the American political system does and should work.