Monday, September 27, 2010
The military industrial complex
Eisenhower warns the Americans about the military industrial complex.
Try to understand Eisenhower's warning message. It was his farewell address to the Nation. Pay special attention to the end of part one and the first half of the second. Why does Eisenhower worry about liberties? Where does the threat for those liberties come from?
In President and General Dwight David Eisenhower 's farewell Address to the Nation he warned Americans about the persistant threat to liberties by the "military industrial complex". This was the first known use of that expression.
Eisenhower on the use of the nuclear bomb:
here you have a letter Ike wrote to his brother concerning the use of the Atomic Bomb in Japan.
letter to his brother Edgar, November 8, 1954
"I voiced to him (Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the (atomic)bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives."
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WHY?
Why do the babies starve
When there's enough food to feed the world?
Why when there're so many of us
Are there people still alone?
Why are the missiles called peace keepers
When they're aimed to kill?
Why is a woman still not safe
When she's in her home?
Love is hate
War is peace
No is yes
And we're all free
But somebody's gonna have to answer
The time is coming soon
Amidst all these questions and contradictions
There're some who seek the truth
But somebody's gonna have to answer
The time is coming soon
When the blind remove their blinders
And the speechless speak the truth
Tracy Chapman
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I think that the war is not necessary! is a invention who man made for create a necessity to have more power, money.
ReplyDeleteThe war is a very bad way to obtain things, because It damages the people and the economy of the country
Karina Curihuinca
I think that war only destroy our world, most of the time innocent people are who die because lot of them are forced to defend their families and homes.
ReplyDeleteI think that we as human beings that are able to think, we must try to resolve our differences and troubles through conversation and negotiation. This is something that leaders of all countries must promote to avoid that war and weapons continue destroying our lives.
Ximena Tirapegui
Definitely War is not necessary. It is a wrong way to solve the problems and I think that those problems are between politicians. It is not fair that innocent people pay the price of the pride of others.
ReplyDeleteIt is terrible how people die, families that are separated, children alone without their parents, people without a place to live or food to eat. There are many aspects of the War that negative for the human species.
obviously war is not necessary. we could always handle things peacefully like with a contract or a meeting, to prevent that innocent people die.
ReplyDeleteAbigail Larenas