Podhoretz’s Revised View of Military Service
Podhoretz fails to make the simple distinction between doing the right thing and doing the thing right.
The cadets at our military academies believe they are doing the right thing, otherwise they wouldn’t be there. The analysis of books like “Catch-22” is intended to help them learn how to do the thing right.
LEO E. PERSSELIN
Rancho Palos Verdes
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