Sadly, says writer Bill Kauffman, no it does not.
"Since 1941, war has warped American life. Only the doddering and the dotards among us have lived in an America that is not armed, aggressive, and perpetually at war. If you would seek those who know what an America at peace is like, visit the nursing home. If you would hear the sounds of America at war, walk the corridors of a veterans’ hospital. Listen to the shrieks and sobs—the keening for the lost America of Ida and Edgar Eisenhower."
Written on the 50th anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1961 farewell address warning Americans about the emergent military-industrial complex.
