Henry Cabot Lodge, 1919
Sunday, January 09, 2005
An Old Thought on the League of Nations
The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence. Leave her to march freely through the centuries to come, as in the years that have gone. Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance--this great land of ordered liberty. For if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
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This is interesting.
It's arbitrarily saying things, with no reason to believe what he says, but hnotice that he's not an "I don't care" isolationist (or that's not what he's pretending to be)
He's arguing the U.S. 1) is the world's best hope, 2) is a powerful force for good and 3) has served mankind. And that if the U.S. stumbles and falls (which he somehow equates with joining the League of Nations) "freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."
Which would mean he cares about freedom and civilization everywhere.
Of course, it was all some kind of political calculation.
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