<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I too have used Eisenhower's words in hopes that they be taken literally from someone who understood the perils of militarism, but Wolff explains why to do this is to give a false image of Eisenhower. <div><br></div><div><p class="rteleft"><i>Eisenhower's "warnings about military overreach were couched, it's usually forgotten, in passages insisting on the need for a military of unprecedented size." The famous final warning about the military-industrial complex is the best example: It was immediately followed by words that are typically ignored: "We recognize the imperative need for this development [of the complex].... Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action" because the communist threat "promises to be of indefinite duration."</i></p><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/how-one-paragraph-a-single-speech-has-skewed-eisenhower-record66953">http://www.truth-out.org/how-one-paragraph-a-single-speech-has-skewed-eisenhower-record66953</a></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>