Robert Parry — The Nitwits Are in Charge

In 1953, less than three months after becoming President, Dwight Eisenhower decried the diversion of so much money and talent into the pursuit of more and more deadly weapons, saying: “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.”

Then, in his farewell address in 1961, Eisenhower warned that the nation “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.”

We now know that both the waste and the influence survived even the Cold War’s end – and they are now roaring back to life with the birth of a new Cold War.

Cui bono? As always, follow the money.

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The Nitwits Are in Charge

Robert Parry