People continue to site Eisenhower for first warning us by originating a term we now use ubiquitously as the MIC. But he was not the first to do so. Smedly Butler wrote a book 30 years earlier (War is a Racket) telling all who would listen of the real purpose of our military.
People continue to site Eisenhower for first warning us by originating a term we now use ubiquitously as the MIC. But he was not the first to do so. Smedly Butler wrote a book 30 years earlier (War is a Racket) telling all who would listen of the real purpose of our military.
August — History has not been kind to Butler. Coming out with his pamphlet just as it was becoming desperately necessary to rearm, to have a chance of stopping Hitler, his babbling about “munitions makers” is laughable.
By contrast, the world’s most famous pacifist, a much smarter man — arguably the smartest man in the world — realized it was time to set pacifism aside: Albert Einstein.
Yeah, stopped Hitler, replaced him with Stalin and bankrupted Europe which at the time was a group of colonial exploiters and occupyers. We are not now and never were the good guys. In the light of the lies we were told about COVID-19 84, we need to reexamine ALL the lies we've been told including WWII.
Robert — Compared to Hitler and Stalin — both murdering millions in service of crackpot ideologies — just about anybody was a “good guy”. For example, the Western allies had internment camps; the Nazis and Soviets had death camps. I think you will agree that only an imbecile would call them the same.
No question progressive elites, especially, believe in lying to us for our own good. That doesn’t mean we should start doubting that, e.g., the world is round.
Yes, and good old Ike was late to his conclusion. Arriving to it after his administration made it possible. Better late than not though advice ignored since.
People continue to site Eisenhower for first warning us by originating a term we now use ubiquitously as the MIC. But he was not the first to do so. Smedly Butler wrote a book 30 years earlier (War is a Racket) telling all who would listen of the real purpose of our military.
August — History has not been kind to Butler. Coming out with his pamphlet just as it was becoming desperately necessary to rearm, to have a chance of stopping Hitler, his babbling about “munitions makers” is laughable.
By contrast, the world’s most famous pacifist, a much smarter man — arguably the smartest man in the world — realized it was time to set pacifism aside: Albert Einstein.
Yeah, stopped Hitler, replaced him with Stalin and bankrupted Europe which at the time was a group of colonial exploiters and occupyers. We are not now and never were the good guys. In the light of the lies we were told about COVID-19 84, we need to reexamine ALL the lies we've been told including WWII.
Robert — Compared to Hitler and Stalin — both murdering millions in service of crackpot ideologies — just about anybody was a “good guy”. For example, the Western allies had internment camps; the Nazis and Soviets had death camps. I think you will agree that only an imbecile would call them the same.
No question progressive elites, especially, believe in lying to us for our own good. That doesn’t mean we should start doubting that, e.g., the world is round.
Yes, and good old Ike was late to his conclusion. Arriving to it after his administration made it possible. Better late than not though advice ignored since.
Just reading it now.