— Malcolm HarrisStrategic bombing made victory so comparatively cheap that political changes anywhere in the world became subject to internal American deliberation. Washington was the capital of the free world, and soon that would be the whole world, an ever-vigilant bald eagle tucking the grateful planet into bed. Just one problem: It wasn’t really working.
Replicated under Fair Use from Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris.