National Trends

They Gave the Orders, II

Communism was no longer an evil to be scorned and, in due course, eliminated; it was a different way of life, to be disapproved but put up with. War was no longer a distant threat to be kept at bay by healthy defense appropriations; it was a real and imminent alternative to reaching an accommodation with the Soviets. America was no longer the self-confident master of her own destiny; she now had to reckon with a law of necessity that hade her listen attentively to an enemy’s terms.

LB

About the Author

L. Brent Bozell Jr.

Featured Tags

They Gave the Orders, II

Communism was no longer an evil to be scorned and, in due course, eliminated; it was a different way of life, to be disapproved but put up with. War was no longer a distant threat to be kept at bay by healthy defense appropriations; it was a real and imminent alternative to reaching an accommodation with the Soviets. America was no longer the self-confident master of her own destiny; she now had to reckon with a law of necessity that hade her listen attentively to an enemy’s terms.