Eisenhower was such a political animal / opportunist. At the same time as he’s decrying the military industrial complex, he did his best to rev up the cold war, squash anti-colonialist movements, carrying out coups, government overthrows, and terrorist attacks in Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, the Congo, vietnam, and indonesia.
His foreign policy team was the Dulles brothers and Nixon, yet somehow he’s convinced future generations that he was a folksy old codger who disliked the military.
Eisenhower was such a political animal / opportunist. At the same time as he’s decrying the military industrial complex, he did his best to rev up the cold war, squash anti-colonialist movements, carrying out coups, government overthrows, and terrorist attacks in Iran, Guatemala, Cuba, the Congo, vietnam, and indonesia.
His foreign policy team was the Dulles brothers and Nixon, yet somehow he’s convinced future generations that he was a folksy old codger who disliked the military.
Classic liberal move to cause a ton of problems and then say, “but those things are terrible and we must fight them!” on their way out.