the unheeded warning

I've probably linked to the video of Eisenhower's farewell warning to his country and fellow citizens already, maybe more than once, but in this time of the Pentagon's latest "surge," this one in Afghanistan, it bears repeating.

See it here.

There's a short passage from Ike's speech I've seen quoted half a dozen times in half a dozen different places in recent days which is highly appropriate in these hard and troubled times : "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 unheeded warning is going to come home to us very soon.