>the last US president to call out the military industrial complex was a five-star general
>>129958955
>It's okay, better ignore everything and blindly shill each other on a Japanese cartoon image board about non-issues irrelevant to the real systemic issues that plague our society
Kennedy did as well.
>>129959168
>Kennedy did as well.
He did? From what I know about Kennedy he was cucked by the generals into sending more US troops in Vietnam.
WHat about the medical industrial complex?
>>129958955
Eisenhower should have taken DC by force.
>>129959372
>WHat about the medical industrial complex?
We've been cucked since the 1930s on that. Reason US didn't get single payer is because it was to similar to our enemies at the time like Nazi Germany.
Eisenhower warned of two things in that speech. Everyone quotes the military-industrial complex, but he also warned that academia and media were the more insidious danger.
>>129959168
>>129959349
Yep, most people say Kennedy wouldn't have significantly escalated the war in Vietnam if he wasn't assassinated
>>129960044
Eisenhower was also related to the fuckery with Patton.
>tfw we didn't listen to Eisenhower
>>129960044
Exactly, that's why they only remember the military industrial complex.
Based Eisenhower
No president since has even come close to his level of integrity.
>>129959622
it was deemed too close to communism at the time actually and America as a whole had a huge hate boner for communism until the late 60s
>>129959349
Kennedy wanted to destroy the CIA and never allow an organization similar to it to resurface. He was more interested in things like pushing America to its limits, such as the space race.