Let me put it at its worst and in very bald terms: The Great White Chief is at bottom pacifist, has always been so and is so now.

Of course I do not mean a pacifist at any price, certainly not a cowardly pacifist.

But (looked at theoretically) war is, of course, an absurd way of settling any quarrel, an irrational way.

Men and nations are wasteful, cruel, pigheaded fools to indulge in it.

Quite true.