Shape Up and Ship Out

The “military cure,” as you put it, is, of course, the military disease. Americans never again will hear a Republican president advise them, as did Dwight Eisenhower, to “beware” our military-industrial complex; and The Golden Fleece award of the late Sen. Proxmire no longer graces us with its constructive criticisms and condemnations of Pentagonal profligacy. Alas, so deeply ingrained is the militaristic rationale that video games prepare children for combat,  martial-arts instruction seems the preparatory coming-of-age ritual for blue-collar cannon fodder, and Congressional outbursts of lambaste for the social blasphemy of blank-check defense are impolitic. It seems more probable than when President Eisenhower uttered his courageous and prophetic comment on the industrial sizing of commander-in-chiefdom that we shall bury ourselves in weapons procurement and institutionalize fear stemming from the arms bazaar with which we have contaminated global relations. No longer do university and college students rail against defense department liaisons with academia, or object that the leading edge of science salutes warfare. So overwhelming has the Pentagon’s zealotry become that husbands and wives are now together deployed into harm’s way with a policy hailed for its compassionate sensitivity to the strains on a marriage that war can induce. To destructure The Pentagon is tantamount to colonizing Mars. It would appear that the latter will precede the former.

Posted by Bud Wizer on Apr 2, 2008 at 11:26 AM

The military cure that you mention in your article. i am agree with you. i think Amarica also prefer this not in against. but some countries did not like this and they always against the Military Cure.

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Posted by Tom Lee on Jul 24, 2009 at 12:37 AM