Deja Vu Defeatism

The troops returning home are worried. “We’ve lost the peace,” men tell you. “We can’t make it stick.”

A tour of the beaten-up cities of Europe six months after victory is a mighty sobering experience for anyone.

Never has American prestige in Europe been lower.

We have swept away Hitlerism, but a great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease.

(Original graphic @ Jessica's Well. Tip of the SGH to FReeper Anglia.)