I don’t have any ‘deep-dive’ here, just that I’ve always been impressed by how prescient and progressive this leader seemed to be, considering…
I don’t have any ‘deep-dive’ here, just that I’ve always been impressed by how prescient and progressive this leader seemed to be, considering…
“In the councils 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."
https://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244/ikes-warning-of-military-expansion-50-years-later
Sure would have been nice if he practiced what he preached.
Yeah hard to take him at his word when he was ramping up nuclear weapons and funneling money to France to fight Ho Chi Minh in French Indochina.