From "Unconditional Hatred: German War Guilt Post W. W. II, 1953",
by Capt. Russell Grenfell:
"The former strong American instinct for the strict avoidance of foreign entanglements seems to have given place to the almost opposite urge for the United States to push its way into any outside trouble, wherever in the world it may occur.
"Thus, although American troops are garrisoning Europe and campaigning in Korea, there seems to be an anxiety in American governmental quarters for them to be fighting in Indo-China and Malaya as well. But it is hard to see what vital American interests require such action in the latter areas; or, for that matter, in Korea either.
"It cannot be overemphasized that national interests are the only valid factors to justify going to war. Unfortunately, once involved in any war, even a cold war, democratic politicians tend to be carried away by idealistic rhetoric which turns them into champions of humanity and world reformers.
"World reform is, however, the very worst of all objects to be sought by war. For major war never makes the world better, but always worse.
"Therefore, to seek the betterment of the common man and such like beatific concepts by getting masses of common men, women and children killed, maimed, and rendered homeless, is nonsensical.
"That is one reason why the slogan often heard since 1939, that nations have a duty to fight for this or that cause, is so deplorable. No country has a natural duty to fight anywhere or to kill anybody. If there is any moral duty at all in this connection, it is not to fight and not to kill." (Emphasis added.)
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