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Originally Posted by BillCosby
Although Ike gave lip service to it he never really did much about the military-industrial complex.....
(SNIP) The cold war doctrine/bull shit of the usa/west/democracy being under overt threat from communism was over shadowed by the aggressive, hegemonic & unwavering assault of that military-industrial complex upon it..............
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Ike had so many MI Phalluses up his buttocks he dare not do anything but talk about it.
Besides, Kansas during the "Cold War" was the producer of B-47 and B-52 Bombers, each to play vital roles in the defense of this country, the B-52 still on duty in 2007 .
We had not yet landed on the Moon, nor had we firmed up our new military strategies.
With the fires of Korea banked but Cold War embers still glowing, embers which needed only another spark to ignite, the Army and other services, who had fought WW2 and Korea with old, many times inferior gear,
had to be refitted and rearmed with new gear, both of which would consume billions of dollars and tens of million of hours of highly skilled labor to produce the needed weaponry and aircraft.
His rant was as much about the incestuous nature of the relationship between government and industry as it was about the unethical immorality of the relationship.
But the need to rearm trumped any real queasiness and our 100% dependence on American industry to do the job made the relationship not only incestuous-but also... cozy.