He cites Reagan's regime.
"When the Cold War came to an end, we had a President who had fought in the Second World War, and he tried to use the end of the Cold War to create exactly the kind of world he had fought to create."
Here is another voice, speaking for the world really, from farther back, re the outcome of WWII, in retrospect:
"By May 1945 we had won the German war militarily, but had lost it politically vis-à-vis Russia." Montgomery, An Approach To Sanity, "NATO--- Past Present and Future", 1959, p. 12.
Largely because of American ideological opposition, we failed to drive the Russians back to their own borders, something which, even in this 1959 volume, Montgomery expressly wished might some day happen...
Reagan was not in the same league with these people.
Eisenhower had no battlefield experience, ever. Think about it.
If there was a so called ' betrayal ' in the Second WW,
(a la Hitler's erroneous allegations against the financiers and politicians, unfounded in the case of Germany, re the First World War),
and vaguely alluded to by Montgomery, back then, regarding a war politically rather than militarily lost, it was the betrayal, by the United States, of views like those of Patton, and perhaps, even, of his demise.
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