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OKLAHOMA CITY) In her recent op/ed ( http://tinyurl.com/2pglfs) backing presidential candidate Barack Obama, Susan Eisenhower reminds us of her grandfather's famous phrase "military-industrial complex".I would like to remind her and you that the original phrase was "military-industrial-Congressional complex".
"Congressional" was dropped as it was felt to be too close to home--an accurate description of what was happening then and has now come to full fruition. And just as ripe fruit is at its peak for a short time and then falls rotten from the tree, can the robust practice of military-industrial-Congressional expenditures be far from falling from its own tax-payer watered tree?
Can anyone doubt that Eisenhower, with his career-long military experience, knew what he was talking about? Just consider all the hullabaloo when there is consideration of closing any military base or facility in any state of the union.
FDR-- though we'll never know how his last term would have turned out after the end of WW II, a war that awarded him four terms and a solution to the Great Depression--benefited greatly from a war economy.
War drains away money for the social programs that knit civilizations together and elevate us above rapacious destruction.
War, its implementation and the planning thereof, is GOOD only for corporate Americka, the waste sucking vacuum of the entire world, and the "ultimate solution" to life as we know it on this planet.
