“If the world determined that Americans were a “weak, flabby, divided, and indefinite people” who could be “insulted and assaulted and abused with impunity,” then the tide of history would flow “over us and we are gone. Our country is gone. Our union is gone. Our liberty is gone.”

“Cabinet Weighs War Plans,” New York Times, March 24, 1917”

The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
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