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President Eisenhower Predicted Our Current Situation

[Victory Girls] Sixty years ago, President Dwight David Eisenhower gave his farewell address to the nation at the end of his second term as President. Even those who have never heard of President Eisenhower know his phrase "military-industrial complex". He predicted our current situation and was so prescient.

If you are under the age of forty, you may not have heard of President Eisenhower. He was born in 1890 and raised in Kansas. He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He served stateside during World War I:

In Eisenhower’s early army career, he excelled in staff assignments, serving under Generals John J. Pershing and Douglas MacArthur. After Pearl Harbor, General George C. Marshall called him to Washington to work on war plans. He commanded the Allied Forces landing in North Africa in November 1942; on D-Day, 1944, he was supreme commander of the troops invading France.

After D-Day, he received his fifth star. At the end of the war, he accepted Germany’s unconditional surrender. He was Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army, President of Columbia University and Supreme Commander of the new NATO force. He beat Democrat Adlai Stevenson and was inaugurated President in 1953.

Here in full is President Eisenhower’s farewell address:

Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-31 02:58|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

Those moaning about the military industrial complex sort of skipped over that warning.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-01-31 06:57|| 2021-01-31 06:57|| Front Page Top

#2 He was the best German general of WWII.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-01-31 12:09|| 2021-01-31 12:09|| Front Page Top

#3 To Bubba: Sorry but as a person who is (and whose ancestors) are part of the long grey line..... Why would you say Ike was the best German General? You must not be from this planet.....

Posted by Ospas Dhahran 2021-01-31 13:20|| 2021-01-31 13:20|| Front Page Top

#4 If you are under the age of forty, you may not have heard of President Eisenhower.

From the Woke Catechism: Eisenhower is often confused with Albert Einstein, a contemporary white male supremacist of the last century (who is often mistaken by Gen Z for Alfred Hedgehog, the intrepid North American crimesver of the small screen).

Whereas Einstein proved that everything is relative, Eisenhower ensured victory for white supremacists in Europe, North Africa and the Americas through a cunning ruse involving the fake "defeat" of Nazism.

Eisenhower went on to pave over sacred indigenous lands with his environmentally-rapist Insterstate Highway System, foreshadowing the Keystone Pipeline. Among his other atrocities was a love of golf, a form of dog-whistling involving ancient white Hebridean rituals with sticks and mashers.

Eisenhower is most notorious for his deliberate deception known as "school integration," whereby Black Americans were tricked into believing in such racist tropes as "equal opportunity" and dissuaded from pursuing separate schools and institutions where they can build a more just, verdant and equitable society free of toxic white influence.

Posted by Hupavins Crolutch1876 2021-01-31 13:22|| 2021-01-31 13:22|| Front Page Top

#5 To Bubba: If you mean German heritage..... then state that. Common sentence structure implies German citizen. Is heritage what you meant to say.... but didn't?

Posted by Ospas Dhahran 2021-01-31 13:27|| 2021-01-31 13:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Re #4: Jeffrey Eisenhower and Dwight D. Epstein are often confused.

Posted by Snock Jith1865 2021-01-31 13:30|| 2021-01-31 13:30|| Front Page Top

#7 So did Khrushchev.

Posted by Angstrom 2021-01-31 13:31|| 2021-01-31 13:31|| Front Page Top

#8 To Hupavins: Einstein's theory has the word relativity in it, but that it is a far cry from meaning that EVERYTHING is relative. His theory doesn't imply or state or even claim that all things are relative. You are ignorant on Einstein. Secondly, your comment is ambiguous. Just what is your point? Are you implying Eisenhower's thousand's of command decisions resulted in him being most notorious for "school integration"? What total bunk. I'm sure you welcome disagreeing perspectives. Right?

Posted by Ospas Dhahran 2021-01-31 13:38|| 2021-01-31 13:38|| Front Page Top

#9 What is the frequency, Ospas?
PS Alfred Hedgehog knows who you are and where you live

Posted by Thrailing Darling of the Heathen Rus7217 2021-01-31 13:45|| 2021-01-31 13:45|| Front Page Top

#10 This 'blast from the past' is a 'soft tiger' when compared to dem people in wdc today.

Surprise film HERE

Posted by Count Galeazzo Big Foot6983 2021-01-31 13:49|| 2021-01-31 13:49|| Front Page Top

#11 #4--loved it! Have you considered sending a resume to the Babylon Bee?

Posted by Tom 2021-01-31 14:48|| 2021-01-31 14:48|| Front Page Top

#12 /\ Forget the Bee, get involved in Georgia politics.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-01-31 14:50|| 2021-01-31 14:50|| Front Page Top

#13 He was the best German general of WWII.

Children, Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 is quoting a common joke from back in the days before wokeness erased the idea of wordplay, using it to point out the superiority of the American philosophy over that of the Nazis. We made other jokes about the Soviets, mostly along the lines of

American diplomat to Soviet diplomat: Our system is superior. We can mock our president any time we want.

Soviet diplomat’s response: What do you mean, superior? We can mock your president any time we want, too, and get promoted for it!

Hupavins Crolutch1876‘s delightful confection is a spot on mockery of woke thinking.

And this thread is a reminder why emoticons are necessary. I’ve been caught too often by the subtler ones, and had to apologize for reading them wrong.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-01-31 15:14|| 2021-01-31 15:14|| Front Page Top

#14 Tom, I think the author is on a "busman's holiday" from writing for the Bee; you know no manditory PC editorial guidelines, free of peer pressure snide commentarys, a chance to use Rantburg to free himself from the intellectual pressure cooker that the Bee is renowned as being. -- Free at last, free at last, Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last. ---

Posted by Ebbomoting Whavilet9355 2021-01-31 15:15|| 2021-01-31 15:15|| Front Page Top

#15 His prediction of the Education-Government Complex was actually more spot on, and the EGC has turned out far more dangerous.

Posted by no mo uro 2021-01-31 15:27|| 2021-01-31 15:27|| Front Page Top

#16 I'd heard the joke as a reference to when Germany's Eastern Offensive floundered, the other thing which would keep Russia from completely gelding Germany was Eisenhower's front, and in doing so Eisenhower made risky decisions which ultimately caused more damage to the Allied Forces than Germany could have done on its own; Market Garden being an obvious example.

The joke being, aggressive maneuvering through defended territory invites additional casualties and hardship as the rule, potmarked by the rare successes, such as Hannibal Barka, and highlighted by dismal failures, such as Publius Quinctilius Varus or to keep in time reference the German Eastern Offensive.

It was told to me by someone with respect and knowledge of Eisenhower.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-01-31 20:51|| 2021-01-31 20:51|| Front Page Top

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