The Carter and Reagan Years, 1977–1989
There is an almost eerie parallel between the situation today and that of the 1930s. Then there also were antiwar movements, movies designed to demonstrate the horrors of war, the Oxford movement in Britain and so on. The result was to encourage the major power in Europe—Hitler’s Germany—to feel that it could embark upon aggression with impunity. In the end, of course, we had a world war.
—BRENT SCOWCROFT IN U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, DECEMBER 5, 1983