The Protracted Conflict

President Reagan’s European tour provoked a greater flood of words than was expected, and I now offer a few more, well after the event.

I start with symbolism, and move on to substance. The great victory of forty years ago over the Nazi and Fascist tyrannies was marred from the start by the fact that, for reasons well known, it was achieved in alliance with a comparable (and sadly more durable) tyranny.