Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Humanity Hanging on a Cross of Iron

Humanity Hanging on a Cross of Iron


Digby recycled this quote over on Hullabaloo. This is a case where there can be no improvement over the original, and I like having this quote handy:


"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 clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."


--Dwight Eisenhower 1953 speech


The issue actually runs quite a bit deeper than this, but I like the way Ike said it. It distills the entire issue into a few easy-to-understand sentences.

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