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thompsonx -> RE: a terrorist is dead,terrorism lives on (5/3/2011 10:19:16 AM)
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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. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. […] Is there no other way the world may live?
–Dwight David Eisenhower, “The Chance for Peace,” speech given to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Apr. 16, 1953.
You have screwed up this quote and are missing the point.
What exactly do you feel the point is?
Are you suggesting that we SHOULD have embraced Uncle Stalin and that this has nothing to do with the Korean War?
His nick name (given him by churchill)was uncle joe not uncle stalin.
Why do you feel that it is either an arms race or sucking uncle joe's dick?
The man had been a fisking GENERAL in the military.
And as such had a first hand opportunity to see the disingenuous relationship between the military and the industrialists....It was eisenhower, I believe, who first coined the phrase "military industrial complex" and warned about their pernicious behavior.
He would also have had first hand knowledge of what a stack of 10,000 dead bodies look like.
Perhaps you like Five-Year-Plans
What was it about the two five year plans that you don't like?
Was it that they were completed in in less time than anticipated?
Was it that they were more successful than anticipated?
and Great Purges,
Kinda like a succession of u.s. presidents "purged" a continent of it's native inhabitants?
but I am not so fond of them.
Have you ever done any indipendent research on the things you hate or have you relied for your information from those who also hate that thing?
You can continue being a supporter of Bulganin and Khrushchev if you like, I find them and Stalin, repellent.
You seem to feel that if someone doesn't hate the way you hate then they must love what you hate?.
The term colateral damage has been used a lot here on this forum and it is used to justify some greater good. If you look upon the genocide of the native american as colateral damage in the pursuit of the american dream then how can you not see the corresponding geocide of the ruling class in russia as colateral damage for the soviet dream?
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