I am anticipating the day when the possession of Tibet and Afghanistan will be represented as vitally necessary to the security of Kansas and Nebraska. There is no logical end to this elastic conception of ‘security’ short of the conquest of the whole world.
Attributed to William Henry Chamberlin: “War – Shortcut to Fascism,” American Mercury LI, 204 (December 1940). In a .sig on the Armchair Economists mailing list.