bignate
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
Location: Hell's Ditch
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 Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject: Why We Fight.... |
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Not sure if there is a thread about this, but don't really care.... 
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Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence � economic, political, even spiritual � is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
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.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. |
And with the 1961 Farewell address of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the documentary Why We Fight begins...
Examining the rise and persistence of the "Military-Industrial Complex" in American society, economy, and politics, Why We Fight is a film everyone should watch...and don't think that it is primarily a bashing job of America, because it isn't. Though it does take aim at the present administration, it also tries to explain why it happened, and what is the possible future....
Not only does it look at the way the MIC affects the world at large, but how those who have come to power, use it to affect the world....A very interesting view of a timely and perhaps, the most critical issue of our present time....
check it out...  |
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