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Friday, 10 December 2010

Eisenhower's Farewell Address

Over the past few months, we here at 'Perspective' have talked about How the United States is slowly going down the road to a Fascists and Police State, and even though this is American news, not Canadian, it certainly affects us!

We told you how, more than fifty years ago, General Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell speech as President of the United States, already warned about a 'Military, Industrial Complex' that was slowly creeping through the corridors of power in the good ol' U.S. of A.

Well, we ran across this today!
Newly discovered documents from a cabin owned by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's speechwriter are shedding more light on the evolution of the former general's historic farewell address nearly 50 years ago, and his fears that America's burgeoning military prowess was driving its foreign policy.
The documents, portions of which appeared on the Eisenhower Presidential Library's research website before their public unveiling Friday, are expected to shed more light on the origins of the term "military-industrial complex" — phrasing used by Eisenhower in the speech to warn against unbridled military development.

The phrase began as "war-based" industrial complex before becoming "military" in later drafts.



Grant Moos, son of Eisenhower aide Malcolm Moos, discovered the papers — covered with pinecones, dirt and other debris — in a cabin in Minnesota.


"We are just so fortunate that these papers were discovered," said Karl Weissenbach, director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene. "We were finally able to fill in the gaps of the address. For a number of years it was apparent that there were gaps."


The papers show how Eisenhower and his staff spent two years preparing for his goodbye to the nation and why he decided to include his concern about how America's military building had come to dictate foreign policy in the speech. One document features a typewritten note from Eisenhower lamenting that when he joined the military in 1911, there were 84,000 Army soldiers — a number that ballooned roughly ten-fold by 1960.


"The direct result of this continued high level of defense expenditures has been to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions, where none had existed before," he wrote in the passage, a variation of which reached the delivered speech on Jan. 17, 1961.


Eisenhower biographer David Nichols noted that while the speech is known for the phrase "military-industrial complex," the president had warned about military growth and the Cold War threats throughout his presidency.


"He was always talking about the Cold War and the threat to American values and the danger that America would become a garrison state," Nichols said. "The military wanted a lot more than he was willing to give them. It frustrated the Army. He thought about it all the time."


By The Associated Press
I know this sounds like 'fear-mongering' folks, but in a country that spends more on their military than the next twenty countries combined, and has to start a war every few years to test all the new stuff, there is something seriously wrong here!

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