PLATFORM : Can’t Go It Alone
For now, again as with Taft and McCarthy, we hear new voices suggesting that the United States should, somehow, withdraw from world affairs, remove its troops from Europe and the Pacific, and “look after its own.’ In other words, that having won the Cold War, we should now proceed to lose the peace.
I wonder what Roosevelt, Truman, Marshall or Eisenhower would think of these people. Of course we do not object to your putting America first. We certainly intend, I can assure you, to put Britain first.
But unlike those who have turned the term “America first” into one of the most shortsighted and dangerous slogans in modern history, we do not believe that we can do it alone--nor can you. You do not have the option, any more than we in Europe do, of stopping the world and getting off.
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