For John Foster Dulles, the matter couldn’t be any simpler. Viewed with the moral certitude of the devout Presbyterian that he was, the Cold War was a titanic struggle between good and evil, between godless communism and the Free World, between the enslavers and the liberators. Granted, “Free World” had a fairly broad definition, what with all the right-wing dictatorships in the American camp, but at least their hearts were in the right place and their people were allowed to worship.
