The Danger of Ignoring Eisenhower's Warning about the Military Industrial Complex
breakingtheset·Published on Jan 21, 2014
Abby Martin remarks on the anniversary of President Eisenhower's farewell address, citing his warning to the American people of the danger of the military industrial complex.
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- Those who forget history are condemned, etc......
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Too bad the reason he knew so much about it was because he, more than anone, is responsible for it coming to fruition.
- But then that's after-whist......
It raised his presidency in my own estimation. Considering Little Rock as well. But he had become, by the end of his presidency, an anachronism. He was the last US president born in the 19th century, and lived during a time which had moved so quickly that his ability to understand the ramifications of many of his decisions was well beyond his capacity, I believe.
It's almost beyond ours now.
- But I hope we do better than he did.....
Insofar as trying to resurrect or salvage the current paradigm.
- This can't be fixed. Only replaced.
...that self-same MIC won't allow it. They need the fodder (not as many as before) and the fodder need the jobs since the private sector's not up to snuff. Nor is it likely to ever be again. And it's a nice way to obscure the true cost of the military by passing-off the costs to the welfare and education departments.
Likewise, the existing system of governance is way-past being too jiggered and corrupted to accomplish anything other than passing facade-legislation so filled with loopholes and exceptions that it'll sing as it passes through the halls of Congress. A couple of years later it'll be so weak, what's left will be eviscerated into nothingness by corporate lawyers just now graduating from college.
- And who, incidentally, will need all the money they can get to help payoff their enormous law school debts along with the money from their part-time jobs at Mickey D's.......
...the credit. But as you say: only when he is also given the damning for doing it. I say this because I think that he was probably the only one living at the time who could have stopped it.
And you'll note that no chances were taken after Eisenhower. JFK was the message that no flexibility on the issue would be further tolerated.
- And everyone's heeded that message ever since......
...I'm sure they could replace it quite easily. With over 900 military bases all over the planet, I'm sure they could find it in the petty cash accounts alone.
- And don't even get me started on their drug money......
...at least at this point, is that it was very likely already a fait accompli.
- And between Tail-gunner Joe, Roy Cohn, J. Edgar and the rest of the commie scare crowd, that pretty much sealed it.