Why Wars Always End Up Hurting the Most Vulnerable Americans - Peter Beinart - The Atlantic

Why Wars Always End Up Hurting the Most Vulnerable Americans - Peter Beinart - The Atlantic: Most Americans have forgotten how repressive a period World War I was. “You can’t even collect your thoughts without getting arrested for unlawful assemblage,” quipped the writer Max Eastman. “They give you ninety days for quoting the Declaration of Independence, six months for quoting the Bible.” Walter Lippmann said Woodrow Wilson’s administration had “done more to endanger fundamental American liberties than any group of men for a hundred years.”