Principles and Heresies

Nero in Our Camp

President Eisenhower has given us his directive for the coming visit of our mortal enemy; he has given it like a general giving a staff order. But this is a general who has also told us that war is unthinkable; not reflecting, I suppose, on his own career or qualifications. For if war is unthinkable, so is Dwight Eisenhower, Chief of Staff in the world’s most extensive and destructive war.