What Eisenhower Could Teach Obama, Part I, Melvin Goodman
William Astore, Hope and Change Fade, but War Endures
"No president since Eisenhower has fully understood the Pentagon’s dominant position in military and security policy. Armed with his knowledge and experience as World War II’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Eisenhower made sure that he could not be outmaneuvered by his military advisers, particularly on such key issues as the Vietnam War and tensions with the Soviet Union."
"By eliminating the draft and relying ever more on for-profit private military contractors, we've made war a distant abstractionfor most Americans, who can choose to consume it as spectacle or simply tune it out as so much background noise."
Losing in Afghanistan | CommonDreams.org
"Noting that CIA director Leon Panetta admitted that the number of Al Qaeda left in Afghanistan may be 50 to 100, Zakaria asked, “why are we fighting a major war” there? “Last month alone there were more than 100 NATO troops killed in Afghanistan,” he said. “That’s more than one allied death for each living Al Qaeda member in the country in just one month.”
Our economic crisis is directly tied to the cost of the war. We are in desperate need of money for education and health care. The $1 million per year it costs to maintain a single soldier in Afghanistan could pay for 20 green jobs."
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