Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower [1013x640]
This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. [...] Is there no other way the world may live?
Some years back, I quoted this in a forum, asking a chickenhawk type to guess who said it. His response? "I don't know, man. I'm just glad people like that weren't in charge during WWII, or we'd be speaking German today."
My jaw dropped. Then, I dropped 3 or 4 hints that it was Eisenhower, before having to tell him outright that it was Eisenhower and explain why that was a self-own. Fun times....
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grounderror on April 14th, 2018 at 13:42 UTC »
The next bit is pretty powerful in my opinion:
HollywoodCote on April 14th, 2018 at 13:53 UTC »
Some years back, I quoted this in a forum, asking a chickenhawk type to guess who said it. His response? "I don't know, man. I'm just glad people like that weren't in charge during WWII, or we'd be speaking German today."
My jaw dropped. Then, I dropped 3 or 4 hints that it was Eisenhower, before having to tell him outright that it was Eisenhower and explain why that was a self-own. Fun times....
like_a_horse on April 14th, 2018 at 14:40 UTC »
Ike was a military man but he understood the role of the army and military industrial complex during peacetime.