Paul Wolfowitz Quotes
Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.
Schult, Christoph. "Republican Neocon Paul Wolfowitz: 'I Might Have to Vote for Hillary'." Der Spiegel, 26 Aug. 2016.
In a NATO military operation, there is one NATO Supreme Commander but each nation has a minister for NATO. All significant decisions must be consented to be this group. But each of those is a representative of a different political government. Clark was masterful at this diplomatic side of the war just as Dwight Eisenhower was in WWII. Eisenhower had bigger egos to content with—Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, De Gaulle, but Clark had many more counties who could each veto actions.
Shortly thereafter the United States joined the allies and the First World War.
At the time there were some very isolationist leaders of the Republican Party and the party was split. Willkie, who was then a possible Republican Presidential Candidate, absolutely shocked partygoers of both parties but especially Senator Taft who himself was a strong isolationist and potential candidate himself. Loyal party members then as now are always expected to support the nominee of the party regardless of their positions. However, Hitler and fascism were considered such a serious risk to the United States and the world, by men like Willkie that the usual party politics did not apply.
President Wilson had gone to Paris for peace treaty negotiations. Ex-President Roosevelt was on his deathbed. But even then TR was his politically contentious self.
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz is an American political scientist and diplomat who served as the 10th President of the World Bank, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, and former dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
