July 2, 2006

President Eisenhower's Farewell Speech

This speech (text here) is a classic—a bit dry, but excellent—which everyone should be familiar with (I'm inspired to make it available after watching "Why We Fight"). All Eisenhower's worst fears have now come true to a more dire extent even than he'd envisioned. Unchecked, the US military complex today, like cheap silver driving out gold, is well on its way to supplanting all other political forces. Let's keep the forecast plain and simple: without a winning strategy for grassroots activism and a revolution in public consciousness, within a matter of decades the American public will likely dance with an overt military dictatorship. (The unedited speech runs fifteen and a half minutes.)