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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, 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 clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Eisenhower
The entire speech is worth a read.
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/chance_for_peace.pdf
We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.
We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people
Ack! I looked to follow you, because of that post, which gets to the fundamental truths in so few words, BUT, I was already following you! ❗
@petes_bread_eqn_xls I'm not gonna defend Eisenhower on immigration, but there's a great many things he should be remembered fondly for. FDR has a similar mixed legacy.
(Before Trump, we had Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback" and that's unfortunately the official name of it.)
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War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
—Smedley Butler
@vwbusguy the sentiment is commendable.
the statement ignores an essential differentiation between murder and protection, both of which take the form of killing.
every blessed weapon in service to Ukraine is essential for people to be able to eat or be housed at all.
it is invasion, and the tools of invasion, that are unconditionally evil.
not defense, or tools and acts of defense.
those are in the most literal term opposites: one evil and unnecessary. the other good and necessary.
"Cada arma que se fabrica, cada buque de guerra que se lanza, cada cohete que se dispara, significa, en última instancia, un robo a quienes padecen hambre y no tienen alimento, a quienes pasan frío y no tienen ropa. Este mundo en armas no solo gasta dinero. Gasta el sudor de sus trabajadores, el ingenio de sus científicos, las esperanzas de sus hijos. Esto no es una forma de vida en absoluto, en el verdadero sentido de la palabra. Bajo las nubes de la guerra, la humanidad pende de una cruz de hierro.
- Eisenhower"
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