Ike was right all along: The danger of the military-industrial complex
Fifty years ago, President Eisenhower warned of the danger of the 'military-industrial complex'. The huge budget and reach of America's modern defence industry has proved him correct, says Rupert Cornwell
If you doubt, half a century on, that Dwight Eisenhower had it right, then consider the advertisements on WTOP, the Washington region's all-news radio station. Every big metro area in the US has one, where car dealerships tout their bargains, and fast food chains promote a new special offer. Full Story »
Posted by Chris Finnie - via The Independent (World), Fabrice Florin (t), barbara trummpinski-roberts (t)
The words in this piece, as were Ike's words in 1961, are for those who have ears to hear. No one was listening then, and for sure anyone who's listening now and speaks out will be either ignored, silenced by the special interests, or both. Chalmers Johnson's books (BLOWBACK, SORROWS OF EMPIRE, NEMESIS) recall Eisenhower's warnings -- in spades -- but I doubt that anyone who can do anything about reining in the military-industrial-CONGRESSIONAL complex has read them, much less exerted any efforts at control. The pity of it all, as so well stated in this article, is that piles of money that could have been spent on badly needed domestic problems and projects have gone irretrievably down the military sinkhole for 5 decades, and there's no end of it in sight.