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BY JAMES TARANTO
Monday, October 20, 2003 3:29 p.m.
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Quagmire Alert
JessicasWell.com reprints an article from Life magazine complete
with the familiar postwar laments:
The troops returning home are worried.
"We've lost the peace," men tell you. "We can't make it stick."
. . . Friend and foe alike, look you accusingly in the face
and tell you how bitterly they are disappointed in you as an American.
. . . Never has American prestige in Europe been lower.
. . . Instead of coming in with a bold plan of relief and
reconstruction we came in full of evasions and apologies.
. . . A great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse
than the disease. The taste of victory had gone sour in the mouth of
every thoughtful American I met.
Hey, wait a second. Didn't Life magazine go
out of business a couple of years ago? Why yes. This article, by John Dos
Passos (1896-1970), appeared in Life's Jan. 7, 1946
issue.
[Ed: also see http://www.jessicaswell.com/Life-Page02.htm ] |
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