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 » 1961 : Discours du président Dwight Eisenhower sur le complexe militaro-industriel américain
Dwight Eisenhower
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Nous devons veiller à empêcher le complexe militaro-industriel d’acquérir une influence injustifiée dans les structures gouvernementales, qu’il l’ait ou non consciemment cherchée. Nous nous trouvons devant un risque réel, qui se maintiendra à l’avenir : qu’une concentration désastreuse de pouvoir en des mains dangereuses aille en s’affermissant. Nous devons veiller à ne jamais laisser le poids de cette association de pouvoirs mettre en danger nos libertés ou nos procédures démocratiques. Nous ne devons jamais rien considérer comme acquis. Seul un peuple informé et vigilant réussira à obtenir que l’immense machine industrielle et militaire qu’est notre secteur de la défense nationale s’ajuste sans grincement à nos méthodes et à nos objectifs pacifiques, pour que la sécurité et la liberté puissent prospérer ensemble. […]

[Dwight Eisenhower, Discours de fin de mandat resté connu sous le nom du Discours du Complexe Militaro-Industriel, 17/01/1961]

#complexe_militaro_industriel #Eisenhower

Une autre histoire de l’amérique, par Oliver stone.
Série de documentaires en 10 épisodes. Passionant !

▻http://rutube.ru/video/person/720865

#vidéos #USA #Roosevelt #Wallace #Truman #Churchill #Staline #Eisenhower #Johnson #Nixon #Reagan #Gorbatchev #Bush #Obama

Tomgram: Noam #Chomsky, America’s Real Foreign Policy
▻http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175863/tomgram%3A_noam_chomsky%2C_america%27s_real_foreign_policy

In the 1950s, President #Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster #Dulles explained quite clearly the dilemma that the U.S. faced. They complained that the Communists had an unfair advantage. They were able to “appeal directly to the masses” and “get control of mass movements, something we have no capacity to duplicate. The poor people are the ones they appeal to and they have always wanted to plunder the rich.”

That causes problems. The U.S. somehow finds it difficult to appeal to the poor with its doctrine that the rich should plunder the poor.

#Etats-Unis

“Bruce #Bartlet of The Fiscal Times sees #Obama as a #moderate #conservative
►http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2011/07/22/Barack-Obama-The-Democrats-Richard-Nixon.aspx#page1

Democrat Franklin D. #Roosevelt was a transformative president, partly because of his policies but mainly because he presided over the two most disruptive events of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II.

By the time Dwight #Eisenhower took office, people craved stability and he was determined to give it to them. This angered his fellow #Republicans, who wanted nothing more than to repeal Roosevelt’s New Deal, root and branch. And with control of both the House and Senate in 1953 and 1954, he could have undone a lot of it if he wanted to.

But Eisenhower not only refused to repeal the New Deal, he wouldn’t even let Republicans in Congress cut taxes even though the high World War II and Korean War rates were in effect. He thought a balanced budget should take priority. Eisenhower also helped to destroy right wing hero Joe McCarthy and worked closely with liberals on civil rights.

Eisenhower’s effective liberalism was deeply frustrating to conservatives. Robert Welch of the John Birch Society even accused him of being a communist. But after Republicans lost control of Congress in 1954, he was the only game in town for them.”