America First?

[liberal N proud]

1. Eisenhower on war

A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower


"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men".
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing".
From his 1953 "Chance for Peace" speech: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed".