Would they have tried Eisenhower in WWII?
Of course not. Don't be silly. Eisenhower was on the right side of history. Unlike Franks and Myers who are no more than thugs working to enforce an imperial resource grab. Franks and Myers are much more akin to Rommel and Gerd von Rundstedt. These were soldiers who were engaged in expanding a nationalist and illegitimate empire.
Please note the last portion of this post. It clearly indicates that the Bushistas view Iraq and Central Asia as the "frontiers" of our new empire.
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All I have to ask is........ by what right? Military superiority? That was Hitler's justification. Eisenhower fought to destroy this empire building and the destruction of subjugated populations. Franks and Myers intend to continue fighting in order to transfer natural resource wealth to a tiny oligopoly of craven and grasping American corporate interests.
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A couple of Eisenhower quotes might help put our present malaise as a nation in perspective:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." --President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech in 1953
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes." --Farewell Speech, 1961
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Jack Kennedy was assassinated for defying the military-industrial complex. LBJ caved in to them and the nation became engaged in the senseless slaughter of over 2,000,000 innocent Vietnamese citizens and 58,000 American troops in an act of pure hubris and imperial folly.
As Ron Reagan would say, "Here we go again......" <ng> |
