Why Not Victory: A Fresh Look at American Foreign Policy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Why Not Victory: A Fresh Look at American Foreign Policy

Young people are discovering that, contrary to What they might have been told in school, conservatism is not dead. Conservatism IS a natural philosophy which recognizes man as having a spiritual and a material side, and that the two are intertwined. One cannot be affected without a reaction taking place in the other. Consequently as the focus is placed on the material side, the Spiritual Side weakens. From this comes a weakening of man which can today be seen in our apathy toward crime in all categories, in man's greater and greater reliance on a government for the solu tion of his daily problems, and in man's reluctance to face the real dangers loose in the world today. Conservatism being a natural philosophy, the young have little trouble recognizing its value. It is not difficult to show them that changing the nature of man by edict is impossible and that trying to change the pattern of our economic system by applying to it theories tried and found wanting in the past simply does not make good sense.

Some people believe that conservatism is applicable only to economics. In their minds conservatism has become a sort of exercise in bookkeeping, Which it isn't at all. Its truths can be applied to every problem and situation which we have before us today and which will crop up in the future. It is my hope that this book will demonstrate this to the readers' satisfaction in the field of foreign affairs.

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