This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, 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.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

[–] lateraltwo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Last good Republican change my mind

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

His foreign relations record includes a hell of a lot of ratfucking the third world, including being so paranoid about communism he ended up pushing quite a few nations into the Soviet sphere when the coups didn't work (Cuba, cough cough cough) and directly enabling some of history's greatest monsters when they did, but he is an American president so grade that on a curve I guess

[–] lateraltwo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Yep, it went downhill from there, just so ya know

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Exactly. I like Ike, in comparison to other U.S. presidents. He had some good ideas, but we have a really shitty track record with the rest of the world, and he's no exception to that.