1/ At the onset of WW2 the United States did not even have a standing military...and along with others we still won the war. It was only at the end of WW2 that the “defense industry” was created....
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2/ ...leading President Eisenhower (who was also the Supreme Allied commander in WW2) to warn us about the “military industrial complex.”npr.org/2011/01/17/132942244…

Ike's Warning Of Military Expansion, 50 Years Later

On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower gave the nation a dire warning about what he described as a threat to democratic government. He called it the military-industrial complex, a formidable...

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3/ The myth has been created that a huge defense industry is necessary for our security. Yet it is nothing but that: a myth. The gargantuan size of our military expenditure does not represent increased safety for us or for others; in many ways it represents more danger.

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Where would we be now if the warning was heeded?
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Please don’t pretend to know anything about military spending. The focus should be on the corruption in DC that keeps landing us in unending wars.
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Do you remember ... "I Like Ike"... He was a Republican and ... I DID LIKE HIM ... As you say ... he was the "Supreme Allied Commander" in WWII and he had the ... COURAGE ... as President, to warn us about the "Military Industrial Complex."
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"A standing military will not long be safe companions to liberty, the means of defense against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home ... throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people." J. Madison
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I would feel safer with expanded social safety nets Better roads , better everything I touch in every day life
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Cant be the world's policeman when we obviously don't know how to protect and serve our citizens at home.
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That’s a pretty bad take
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It’s why we can’t have nice things.
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Is for power/money the freedom/democracy narrative is purely diversion.
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