I wish, I should have saved the copy of that article, which was talking about the decline of the American power. The author mentioned that in his farewell speech in 1961, Dwight David Eisenhower edited his speech before delivering it. In the speech, Eisenhower had sought to the warn the nation about the growing influence of the industrial-military complex. The orginal line was "industrial-military-congressional complex", which Ike edited by deleting the word "congressional" from it.
Makes sense, does it not?
Congress passes the defense authorization bills, which generate all defense related activity and there is not a single congressional district in the republic, which does not have a military base or a defense related business. According to the recent General Accounting Office's report, there are 6000 military bases throughout the United States and another 120 overseas. During the Vietnam War, the United States lost nearly 5,000 helicopters. They were all replaced.
Some one must have made a nice profit.
Like Rome, so many years ago, has the American republic changed into a pretorian state?
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We, apparently, are about to engage in a physical extension of the US presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The exact number of US bases on Australian soil is 'yet to be announced.'
What necessity is driving the Australian government to accede to this request? We have no weapons-manufacturing capacity worth poking a stick at and no need to 'import' American weapons, hence it might be a scheme to lease territory to the US in return for . . . . what?
Are we becoming a New Hawaii?
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