Playboy After Hours

March, 1970

Just to show Spiro Agnew that we're not among those effete intellectual snobs who are always criticizing things, we'd like to say a few kind words about the Pentagon. Smug peaceniks condemn it at the drop of a bomb for such peccadilloes as its mind-expanding budget and its scorched-earth policy in Vietnam--but they simply haven't looked at all five sides of the question. Admittedly, this much-maligned institution has shown a certain abiding affection for war, but this doesn't mean that it likes...