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I don't know how this was downvoted - it's completely true. Read any bio of Eisenhower. Eisenhower was involved in big experiments just to see if men and materi
by ArkyBeagle 12y ago
I don't know how this was downvoted - it's completely true. Read any bio of Eisenhower. Eisenhower was involved in big experiments just to see if men and materiel could even be moved across country in the US by wheeled vehicles.
- hackuser 12y ago> I don't know how this was downvoted Perhaps it was the tone, "utterly false". When I see writing like that, I generally stop reading; often what follows is another hyperbolic Internet rant and I've seen enough of them for my lifetime.
- javajosh 12y agoInterestingly, the score for my comment has fluctuated back and forth between +6 to -2. Clearly something touched a chord, which is strange because a) WW2 is a valid counter-example to the claim that you need a huge standing army to fight and win wars, and b) the extent of my "tone" was a single word, "utterly". May all the 'hyperbolic internet rants' limit themselves to a single word.
- ArkyBeagle 12y agoI hear ya - fatigue happens.
- brc 12y agoThat is the number 1 reason for the interstate system. It's also why Germany built the autobahn. The peacetime/domestic benefits were considered secondary.