“My doubts were based on my conviction that the Communist enemy is a voracious beast. The more he is given, the hungrier he becomes. And as long as we of the free nations continue to lead from fear, to react from fright, he will be a well-fed enemy.”

— Mark W. Clark

Source: From the Danube to the Yalu (1954), p. 4

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American general 1896–1984

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