You cannot truly win a conflict that you cannot truthfully define. II. The Extravagance of Pretense.-A policy so grandiose would have had to (1) admit the absence of any national tradition of democratic selfgovernment. (2) budget the American cost for the crusade at $25 billion annually and an expeditionary force of at least 500.000 men. (3) insist on the populaces agreeable appreciation of a war making 20 per cent of them refugees. and (4) enjoin against impatient demands for political success in less than ten to fifteen years. III. The Tyranny of WeaknessThe whole strategy of American bombing followed not from any illusion of mortally hurting the north but from the exigency of morally helping the south....
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