Saturday, January 5, 2008

Thoughts for a New Year


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 D. Eisenhower

I saw Charlie Wilson's War last night. The end quote on the black screen suggested that we "f---ed the endgame" in Afghanistan. I hope we are learning and not making the same mistake in Iran.

I thought that this quote was exceptional and if anyone would understand this first hand, it would be President Eisenhower.

Peace.