Volume 19, Number 11 & 12 · January 25, 1973

Nixon's Blitzkrieg

By I.F. Stone

We have got ourselves a moral monster for a President. His Christmas message, as written in the skies over shattered Hanoi, is that he is determined to have his own way, at whatever cost in human suffering. 'Strength and resolution command respect…. But weakness and naïve sentimentality breed contempt.' Thus spake our Zarathustra in his radio address of October 29 on America's need to be ever first in military might, so we can all be Supermen and make little people tremble.



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