From NY Times
By Aaron B. O'Connell
''Were Eisenhower alive, he’d be aghast at our debt, deficits and still
expanding military-industrial complex. And he would certainly be
critical of the “insidious penetration of our minds” by video game
companies and television networks, the news media and the partisan
pundits. With so little knowledge of what Eisenhower called the
“lingering sadness of war” and the “certain agony of the battlefield,”
they have done as much as anyone to turn the hard work of national
security into the crass business of politics and entertainment.''
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