“God help the Nation when it has a President who doesn’t know as much about the military as I do,”
– President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to his White House Staff Secretary, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster.
Finally, in Scott Berg’s lengthy biography of Woodrow Wilson is a statement about World War 1 made by Winston Churchill to a New York newspaper editor: “America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the world war.”
Then Churchill added: “If you hadn’t entered the war the allies would have made peace with Germany in the Spring of 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by Communism, no break-down in Italy followed by Fascism, and Germany would not have…enthroned Nazism.”(p583)
I wish we could have more political and military leaders who would mind our own business and not be so eager to go to war.