August 06, 2007
"Mission accomplished" dep't
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
Walter Millis, writing in 1931, on the triumphant conclusion of the Spanish-American War:
The war was over. It had all come true — all, with a suddenness, a brilliance, and a completeness beyond every possible expectation. We had shown the world. We had arrived. We had acquired a foreign policy almost as fatuous as the most elegant examples of monarchical Europe.
The Martial Spirit, Chapter XIII
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