Alexander Haig

摘要

Grant and Eisenhower aside, America is uneasy about handing civil power to soldiers; and from the very start of the Reagan administration, in 1981, there was nothing Al Haig could do to erase the impression that he wished to take over the country. At his confirmation hearings for the post of secretary of state he rode roughshod over his interrogators ("No one has a monopoly on virtue, not even you, senator"). He let slip that he wanted to be the "vicar" of foreign policy, a word with pope-size pretensions.