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Obligatory link to Eisenhower's farewell speech, warning about the rise of the military-industrial complex, eerily prescient about current state of affairs: htt
by benmarks 10y ago
Obligatory link to Eisenhower's farewell speech, warning about the rise of the military-industrial complex, eerily prescient about current state of affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knBEQnuJNiI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knBEQnuJNiI
- Aelinsaar 10y agoMost critical section, originally by Douglas MacArthur: "It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war."
- yolesaber 10y agoDamning words from the man who wanted to nuke Korea
- arca_vorago 10y agoI think one of the keys to remebering that speech is to remember the original draft called it the MICC or the military industrial congressional complex.
- praptak 10y agoThat's almost a tautology. With the system rigged to depend on unlimited campaign donations, every "complex" has the "congressional" part.