I just wonder what Ike would think of GW's foreign expansionism and nationbuilding for oil, debilitation of our Armed Forces readiness to defend, and imploding of our domestic economy... :???:
You are right- Goodpasture- Ike was one of the last true statesmen, not just a politician....He not only ran on a platform of ending a war (Korean), and did- but built the interstate highway system (could see its strategic/economic benefits), expanded Social Security, created the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and backed the integration of public schools... And like the true conservative he was- while he believed in a strong military- he refused to go into Vietnam when the French wanted help with their nationbuilding/expansionism project that had gone bad....He also warned of the powers of what eventually became the neocons- the political influence of the military-industrial complex that profiteer from warmongering and were anti to his and the nations peaceful goals.....
Heres a quote from another great leader of that day- who would be chastised royally by the, as you called them "pseudo conservatives" on this site- because he actually came out against the Vietnam War- not so much on the principle- but because he could see these type wars are overly micromanaged by the politicians and pentagon bureaucrats....
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.
General of the Armies Omar S. Bradley