Exculpatory Hawk for Roosting Chickens

M - I - C . . . K - E - Y

lt is only a citizenry; an alert and informed citizenry, which can keep these abuses from coming about. And . . . some of this misuse of influence and power could come about unwittingly but just by the very nature of the thing .... almost every one of your magazines, no matter what they are advertising, has a picture of the Titan missile or the Atlas or solid fuel or other things, there is . . . almost an insidious penetration of our own minds that the only thing this country is engaged in is weaponry and missiles. And, I'll tell you we just can't afford to do that. The reason we have them is to protect the great values in which we believe, and they are far deeper even than our own lives and our own property.

President Eisenhower, in Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, Volume 2

If only ...

& h/t Michael S. Sherry's In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930's (p. 235)