While looking for poems by Badger Clark, I ran across this essay about American foreign policy:

Cowards and Fools—Fall In! by Badger Clark, in The Survey, June 24, 1916.

Patriotism of the 1916 model, as I gather from current utterances editorial and oratorical, is an earnest desire to wallop some foreign nation, especially if it interferes with our business. ... National honor? Well, I have yet to make out just what that is, but it seems to be the thing that fosters in us that most pitiful form of cowardice—the fear that somebody will think we are afraid.