Eisenhower: : "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can..."

1956
"I like to think that people, in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments. Indeed, I believe that people want peace so much, that one of these days governments better get out of their way and let them have it." Dwight D. Eisenhower,
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"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."- - General of the Army D.D. Eisenhower
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"As is well documented in a new film, "Why We Fight," the current militarization of America had its roots in the Second World War. The film focuses on Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 farewell speech to the nation at the end of his eight-year presidency. In a remarkably prescient warning, he told Americans that for the first time in our history we had produced a permanent arms industry and that "we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society."
excerpted from
War: A Theft From Those Who Hunger, by Gilbert Jordan
Published on Monday, April 3, 2006 by CommonDreams.org

Gilbert Jordan is a retired professor of English from Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York, an anti-war activist, rag time piano player, and full-time landscape artist. E-mail Gilbert at: gfjordan@frontiernet.net