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But, I suppose feeble attempts for neo-con-munist apologists to retore would be "it's a post-9/11 world" or "times change".
That coming from the guy who stopped our most advanced attempt to beat the Russians into space....and in fact succeeded and sputnik was one of his greatest achievements.... hats off....
Something that concerned Ike was that while he had the knowledge/experience to know where to cut the military spending, and where not to, others may not.
If he hadn't secretly agreed to appease the Russians with the bay of pigs, the Berlin wall and nuclear missiles....The cold war could have had a huge turn around and not lasted anywhere near as long as it did. In secret he agreed to allow Khrushchev removing american missiles from turkey allowing 30,000 soviet military advisers to remain in cuba to train Casto'os army. Kennedy gave his word to never try to over throw the Castro dictatorship.
If he hadn't secretly agreed to appease the Russians with the bay of pigs, the Berlin wall and nuclear missiles....The cold war could have had a huge turn around and not lasted anywhere near as long as it did. In secret he agreed to allow Khrushchev removing american missiles from turkey allowing 30,000 soviet military advisers to remain in cuba to train Casto'os army. Kennedy gave his word to never try to over throw the Castro dictatorship.
The missle removal was an even trade. Remember we had missiles pointed close the Soviet Union first. Game theory would suggest the Soviets would retaliate by planting them in Cuba.
I have every reason to hate Ike for leaving folks like my father to potentially die as the Soviet Union rolled thousands of tanks into Budapest to squash the revolution. This "proud" pansy US foreign policy is continued by folks like Bush who will use Israel as a proxy for their war on Iran and playing world cop, pandering to evangelicals and AIPAC all the way to the bank.
We're going bankrupt, and you will see how quickly the world cop scenario reverses on itself. Potentially quicker than the Soviet Union. Possibly overnight.
If he hadn't secretly agreed to appease the Russians with the bay of pigs, the Berlin wall and nuclear missiles....The cold war could have had a huge turn around and not lasted anywhere near as long as it did. In secret he agreed to allow Khrushchev removing american missiles from turkey allowing 30,000 soviet military advisers to remain in cuba to train Casto'os army. Kennedy gave his word to never try to over throw the Castro dictatorship.
We were planning to remove those missiles anyways, they were old/outdated by that point...but the Russians didn't know that.
I would certainly agree with the many positive posts regarding Pres. Eisenhower's comments on the military-industrial complex.
As most of us recognize, his warnings weren't heeded very well. One of the difficult (if not impossible) tasks the new Adm.will have is to once again gain proper perspective of the matters at hand--and the proper distribution of power and influence.
We MUST have the dog wagging the tail--not vice versa.
The Chinese Military Power Page - The Commonwealth Institute (http://www.comw.org/cmp/ - broken link)
Your freedom is only one generation away from being lost. It just takes one complacent generation that's it. Humanity isn't out of the totalitarian box yet..
When despair happens across the world through famine and such you can only expect one thing to follow...aggression. Nothing about being complacent says you are a leader or should be a leader.
Hey but what do I know I'm a neocon so take it for what it's worth...
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Ike's Words Of Wisdom
