The Republican Party has always been the major promoter of the Military Industrial Complex, condemned by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address in 1961, but pursued and courted by Republican Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George Bush over the last 45 years of American history.
And Dick Cheney, Vice President under the second Bush, personifies the MIC perfectly!
But now we see Cheney’s daughter, Liz Cheney, who already has thrown her lesbian sister, Mary Cheney, “under the bus” to win bigot votes in Wyoming’s Senate primary, even opposing her own dad and mom on acceptance of gay marriage and their daughter, also coming out against Barack Obama conducting a military strike against Syria for its chemical warfare action against civilians on August 21!
Imagine a Cheney taking such a stand–unbelievable!
But it looks as if most Republicans will vote in Congress against such action, overlooking chemical warfare, which is banned by international treaty of 1925, taking place in Syria.
But then Ronald Reagan overlooked chemical warfare by Saddam Hussein in his nation of Iraq, and against Iran in the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. with the supplies sold for profit with the knowledge of the Reagan Administration!
So the GOP has shown evidence of not caring about war crimes now twice, by Iraq in the 1980s and Syria now!
The Republican Party, therefore, is hypocritical and morally bankrupt, while Barack Obama is principled and a believer in enforcing international law against war crimes!
So what the GOP is doing will undermine its future long term, and it makes one wish to vomit over the lack of principle and common decency in the party, once proud of Lincoln, TR, and Ike!
Yep. Definitely hypocrites!
Hello Professor.
I just watched the movie, “Lincoln.”. I could not help but compare my family’s 150 year plus legacy of the Republican Party with that of which it has so been misled to today.
This current hijacked political views of racism, hateful, embracing wanted ignorance that is the current political platform is a travesty to the origins and hopeful views.
I damn those whom have laid waste to the founding values of my generational forefathers.
When I point this out to the current extreme aspects within my Party, many times I get the reply back that those before them were not “true conservatives.” To this my only reply is that it is THEY whom are not TRUE REPUBLICANS.
But that being said, this reply falls on deaf ears because those of the reactionary extreme conservative aspects, are not interested in FACTS……only wanton ignorant fantasies.
You are absolutely on target, Engineer!