[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

>>“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.” - Eisnehower (R)<<

So to him, World War II was a giant rip-off of the poor “deserving”? The wealth should have been “redistributed” more “fairly”?

Politicians never fail to disappoint me, and even though Ike was a WWII hero, I guess he joins the ranks of politicians.

[Mad Dawgg]

"So to him, World War II was a giant rip-off of the poor “deserving”? The wealth should have been “redistributed” more “fairly”?"

You may be reading more into that than is there. IIRC Eisenhower's statement was akin to the "Guns or Butter" argument that is ongoing in the different economics schools.