“I Hate War”
Yesterday, Chris Brown’s letter reminder me of a quote by President Dwight Eisenhower, which our elected representatives apparently have never heard of: “I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it”
Furthermore Eisenhower said: “This world must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”
“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”
“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”
“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. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It’s spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children.”
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
“The cost of one modern heavy bomber is: a modern brick school in more than 20 cities. It’s two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It’s two fine, fully equipped hospitals.”
Unfortunately, fewer of our elected representative have heard of “War is a Racket” by Major General Smedley Butler. Fewer still of those in our government comprehend the last sentence of Dalton Trumbo’s antiwar masterpiece “Johnny Got His Gun,” which warns: “You plan the wars you masters of men and point the way and we will point the gun.” THE END
Furthermore Eisenhower said: “This world must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”
“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”
“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”
“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. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It’s spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hope of its children.”
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
“The cost of one modern heavy bomber is: a modern brick school in more than 20 cities. It’s two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It’s two fine, fully equipped hospitals.”
Unfortunately, fewer of our elected representative have heard of “War is a Racket” by Major General Smedley Butler. Fewer still of those in our government comprehend the last sentence of Dalton Trumbo’s antiwar masterpiece “Johnny Got His Gun,” which warns: “You plan the wars you masters of men and point the way and we will point the gun.” THE END
posted by Jim O'Leary | 12:00 AM
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