Why was this man always emboldening the enemy?

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George McGovern's warning on the eve of another Memorial Day:

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. . . ."

Then again, what did you expect from --

Wait. Those are the words of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.

Sorry.

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All right. This time it really is George McGovern:

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy, which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."

Wait. Gen. MacArthur again?

Why was this man always emboldening the enemy?