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ers, have not always ARUNDEL been immune from exaggerated notions of our self-importance to the national destiny.
But stone age man probably also thought that he bore in his hands the fate of all living things when he invented the hatchet, as did Martin Luther when in another time he declared that with gunpowder man had finally developed the ultimate weapon.
And less than a century ago, leaders in Britain, then the world’s leading power, were appalled at the burden of human survival they carried when Lord Kitchener first used the machine gun to mow down the hordes of the Mad Madullah in the Sudan.
SINCE VIETNAM
It has been different in Washington since Vietnam, perhaps our last ground war, and Watergate. In the quieter, laid back early months of President Jimmy Carter, visible and newsmaking military combat seems all the more on the way to being replaced by the weapons of nuclear warfare. In nuclear energy man is equally capable of either limitless good or of quickly flattening civilization to a pile of dust and rubble.
So perhaps people in Washington today are indeed not just another generation consumed with indulging their own self-importance. We all, politicians and journalists alike, possess human frailties. But our generation also possess this capacity by the mere pressing of a button to change all of human destiny. There is something less in this than Armageddon, but there is also more than Chicken Little seeing the sky falling.
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