At the current spending rate, in another generation we will have a lot of rich contractors and no aircraft or Naval fleets to speak of
  • DessalinesA
    5·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • TheOubliette
      51·
      1 month ago

      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.

  • davelAEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    I’d like to say it’s a jobs program, but mostly it’s a 🐖 program with Lovecraftian externalizes.