(Shall we learn?) - '..it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.' – Former U.S. President, Dwight D. Eisenhower

<blockquote>'...the element of time. As we peer into society’s future, we — you and I, and our government — must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.'

– Former U.S. President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Military-Industrial Complex Speech, 1961



'Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. ... Is there no other way the world may live?

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, "The Chance for Peace," April 16, 1953 (A cross of iron)

- Shall we learn from sorrow?

- Interlude I</blockquote>


<blockquote>'I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.'

– Dwight D. Eisenhower, TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan, August 31, 1959</blockquote>




*** The Afghanistan Protocol


<Center> 'This material shines light on the everyday brutality and squalor of war.' - Julian Assange</centeR>

<blockquote>Explosive Leaks Provide Image of War from Those Fighting It

Intelligence Agents Flooding in Data

The Flaws of the Silent Killer

German Naivity

Task Force 373: The Secret Hunters</blockquote>