John wrote:
Of course you were.
The following quote:Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are 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... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
was just self-evidentlyf referring to race relations and not defense/foreign policy.
Good grief.
I was, of course, speaking on more general terms.
As far as the above quote being isolationist, I think that Eisenhower, who was noted for his warnings about the defense industry, was speaking in terms of war profiteering and not in terms of isolating ourselves from the problems of the rest of the world. He would, for instance, be very much against spending billions of dollars on an ineffective missile defense system.
-- Doug
"Down the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect."
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