Rod Serling

Yeah, after 1918, we got sick of war, fed up.

All those American kids getting blown to pieces, out of sight in foreign places with strange-sounding names.

So for the next 20 years, we closed our eyes and decided what we couldn't see wouldn't happen.

Right?

Of course, we don't want to take all the credit, do we?

I mean, we weren't the only ones playing shut-eye.

When old Adolf walked into the Rhineland, France didn't want to get involved.

Italy pulled down the window shade when Hitler took Austria.

England wasn't about to involve herself when Czechoslovakia went under.

And Russia kept the phone off the hook while Poland was destroyed.

And before you knew it, everybody was singing, don't rock the boat.

Well, it sank slowly to the bottom.