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am returning it to you. Thank you for your principled stand against this terrible war.”
Not surprisingly because of his interest in war and peace, another project that this elder statesman and scholar is considering is writing on war and democracy and the problems that relationship creates.
He is especially intrigued by the writings on this subject of Alexis de Tocqueville, the renowned 19th century French philosopher who so much admired America.
De Tocqueville’s comments in his 1835 book (“Democracy in America”) still resonate today: “I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress.”
Sen. McCarthy’s concern is that “the bigger the military organization you have, the easier it is for it to become a power unto itself, setting up its own organizations just as Eisenhower warned us against” — military-industrial factories, hospitals, stores, educational institutions, and even its own foreign policy apparatus.
In regard to our “homeland security” challenges, he observed that terrorists are
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