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To: Land Shark who wrote (112969)	5/1/2012 9:38:16 AM
From: John Vosilla	Respond to of 149317

‘On This Day’ 1961: Eisenhower’s Farewell Address Warns of ‘Military Industrial Complex’ Half a century ago, Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered what was arguably the finest farewell address of any president since George Washington. No stranger to war, the former Supreme Allied Commander of World War II presciently envisioned the danger of our nation’s foreign policy being hijacked by what he called the “military industrial complex.” The phrase was without stigma in those days and Eisenhower’s words rang true with a nation that was witnessing an out-of-control nuclear arms race right before its horrified eyes. The American people had no way of knowing that much of this obscene proliferation was due to intentional misleading on the part of their elected leaders. Take, for instance, the much-fretted “missile gap,” the perceived disparity between the number, power and sophistication of American and Soviet ballistic missile arsenals. Like the “bomber gap” a few years before it, the “missile gap” was utter fabrication. But such fear-based compulsion was good business for those who made bombers and missiles, even if the rampant multiplication of such weapons was bringing the world to the brink of thermonuclear annihilation. Such was the nature of the military industrial complex that Eisenhower was warning of as he exited stage left. morallowground.com