131
Biden makes case that aid for Israel and Ukraine will "pay dividends for American security"
(www.cbsnews.com)
Two counterarguments:
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
131 points (89.7% liked)
United States | News & Politics
7192 readers
1 users here now
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
5 Star General, former President, Dwight D. Eisenhower had this to say about the Military Industrial complex. It rings true today as much as it did in 1961
SPEECH
If we’re linking to the classics: Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler: War Is A Racket
Eisenhower was the main force behind building the Military Industrial complex.
It's kind of like a drunken, pantsless party guest saying that there's a bunch of shit and vomit in the bathroom, and that it will certainly be a problem, but they're going home now, so you should clean it up.
Only instead of shit and vomit, it's a bunch of rich assholes making money by killing poor people.
So is it somehow less true because he's the one who shit and vomit everywhere?
https://www.theonion.com/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-of-telling-people-john-1819578998
He was kind of saying "there's this thing I built that could make all of you really rich, but it's kind of horrible, you should totally dismantle it instead of using it to get rich".
When Eisenhower gave that speech in 1961, there were already people screaming about how the military industrial complex was horrific, how it would lead to endless wars, and how it would cause global suffering.