Saving Europe

"e;First we crushed our enemy, then saved him from starvation,"e; Walter Cronkite intoned in a 1963 episode of the CBS television series The Twentieth Century. Designed to commemorate the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of US aid to Europe during World War I, the episode explained that the American military had "e;crushed"e; other nations in both world wars, a violence described as a necessary corre...