The Threat of Militarism, 9 Jul 2006
Related Topics: Military Industrial Complex, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Founding Fathers, Learning
Presentation to Global Scholar seminar, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.
"Ike advised us to be citizens who rise above our slothful, greedy, prideful, and angry tendencies. He also named a part of government and society — the military industrial complex — that would need to be watched for these same tendencies. These same sins afflict the military industrial complex — after all, it still just people."

Why We Fight, 11 Feb 2006
Related Topic: Why We Fight
"Jarecki ... understands and clearly articulates how the care and feeding of the American military leviathan has been, and remains, a shared role of both ... Parties. ... what I really find inspiring ... is that we see the words, thoughts and deeds of the average American ... the backbone of this nation ... founts of common decency and morality."

Interviews

Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski: U.S. Air Force, 1983-2003, by Brian Lamb, Q & A (C-SPAN), 2 Apr 2006
Related Topics: George W. Bush, Military Industrial Complex, Why We Fight
Transcript and Real Audio
"... I wrote little short essays for me, and then I sent them to some of my friends in the Pentagon, and they thought they were funny and interesting, and they were sardonic. ... recently deceased Colonel David Hackworth ...agreed to publish these essays that I was writing pretty much on a weekly basis ..."

Pentagon Whistle-Blower on the Coming War With Iran, 27 Feb 2007
Related Topics: War, Iraq
"... history is full of examples of bald-faced lies being told to sell particular agendas. Often times those agendas include war making, certainly in Vietnam they did, under LBJ and a few other presidents. ... So politicians and their politically appointed military leaders will lie, historically do lie when it has to do with making war, particularly making a war that they want."