Monday, January 17, 2011

Fifty Years Ago Today

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...
Posted by csm at 1:28 PM
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BAWDYSCOT said...

Gee, it looks like you are a big Ike fan. Nothing wrong with that. I would have to believe he was an expert on war and peace. Anyone in a leadership position on D-Day would have to know the cost of war.

I just finished a book, "The Korean War: A History" by Bruce Cumings. This was a war I knew little about and apparently so did most of this country(mainly because of the McCarthy witch hunts according to the author). We weren't the good guys in this, backing a brutal corrupt and intolerant regime just like in Vietnam. No one was a good guy in this war. I won't go into any detail, but suffice it to say we do no good fighting people we don't know or understand for reasons strictly political, in this case the containment of communism. We need to stop all political wars, close all bases in other lands and just use the Armed Forces to protect our own territory. This would go a long way to correcting our budget deficit too.

January 18, 2011 at 8:39 AM
csm said...

Huzzah to that, Bawdy!

January 24, 2011 at 3:35 PM

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