Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't TIME a foolish...
Generous and foolish Americans, stir yourselves to a moment's reflection! It is only nations deficient in intelligence and moral purpose that can conceive no conclusion of conflict except the crushing of an enemy, even when that enemy is ready to renounce a wicked leadership. And in this case, the cost of such mental and moral deficit (responsibility for which must lie heavily on our universities as well as on Washington) must be the ruin of Europe in long drawn out war and the endless slaughter of our youth. The best of England has no such desire...
These were only a few of the many British voices raised last week to clamor for action, action, action. The people of Britain felt that their Government and their High Command were being ridiculously penny-wise and pound-foolish in spending their ally, Russia, to save their own Army at home...
...half expected Hitler to be in Moscow three months ago, that many of them had more than half hoped he would be. They forgot that their rising optimism throughout the summer had been caused in part by Hitler's failure to realize their expectations, in part by their foolish hope that Germany and Russia would do the impossible and destroy each other. They forgot that Moscow was not all of Russia...
Another factor that would make such an invasion a foolish undertaking is the inadequacy of ports of disembarkation. "Harve, alone, would be feasible, and the Germans are well aware of this," he concluded...