Dark Horses

With occasional exceptions to prove the rule, the pattern of U.S. diplomacy since World War II has been one of selling out our friends in order to appease our enemies.

Among the earliest and most tragic victims of this policy was General Draja Mihailovich, the Serbian patriot who fought a valiant, many-sided, and ultimately losing battle to prevent totalitarian conquest of Yugoslavia. Because important elements in the British and American Governments were eager to accommodate the Communists, Mihailovich was delivered into the hands of Josip Broz Tito, and, after a typical Bolshevik show trial, murdered.