TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart What we don’t know about Trump’s war on Iran. It’s a war. No, it’s not a war. We won, and the war is over. The war will be over soon. The Strait of Hormuz is fully open. The Strait of Hormuz is closed again. I will not extend the ceasefire. The ceasefire has been extended by 10 days. The TACO man is at it again. He has no idea what he is doing. WE, THE PEOPLE, DESERVE BETTER I have lived through 14 presidents and watched their actions with feelings of hope and trust. I don’t remember Truman; I was born in 1946. However, I watched some of Dwight Eisenhower’s second nomination at the Republican National Convention in 1956, and my interest in politics began. My opinion about most of our presidents can be summed up with one word: adequate. Only one of them can be called “great.” Sadly, I consider three of them to be the worst in American history, and Nixon is not one of them. I rate presidents solely on their accomplishments for all Americans and their successes or ...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   When President Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in 1961, he made an address to the American people. The most significant issue from one of the architects who organized and planned the events known as “D-Day,” involved the growth of the “military industrial complex in America. His warning may have been a prophecy about every military conflict in which the United States was involved since WWII: each of which resulted in the surrender of America’s military. The often-repeated phrase, “war is good business” is involved in his admonition. The following are excerpts from President Eisenhower’s final speech to the American people, prior to John F. Kennedy’s inauguration.   “Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime.”      The second: “This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — econo...