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DDE: The Cost of War
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 18:49:14 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "John F. McMullen" <observer () westnet com> Date: May 23, 2005 6:46:28 PM EDT To: johnmac's living room <johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com>Cc: Commonweal Mailing List <commonweal () yahoogroups com>, Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: [johnmacsgroup] DDE: The Cost of War Reply-To: johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com In Senator Robert Byrd's (no GWB lover there) book "Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency", he quotes a speech that president Dwigh Eisenhower gave on April 16, 1953 to the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Whether one agrees with GWB's policies or not and, in spite of the fact that, at today's prices, the monies are grosly understated, I agree with Byrd that the words "are as timely today as they were over fifty years ago": "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocker fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those wgo hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. 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 midern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than thirty cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete highway. We pay for a songle fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people." And they said that he wasn't eloquent! "When you come to the fork in the road, take it" - L.P. Berra "Always make new mistakes" -- Esther Dyson"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
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