Eisenhower's warning about the military industrial complex. I think about these words often.

In 1946, Eisenhower said, "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can. Only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they aduce. But in my opinion, there's no such thing as a preventative war. Although the suggestions repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war.Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war. And finally, ...