You might want to review the list of who has gone into debt to wage war. I think we have had equal opportunity spending on that part.
And Ike was not credible? Really?
How about Truman? He made his bones in the Senate showing waste in military spending.
You might want to loosen that flag wrapped around your head. Bi think it’s cutting off some oxygen.
If you’re denying that WWII did have the side effect of repairing the US economy, then you’re denying history. If not for that, then FDR’s monetary policies would have kept perpetuating the depression.
Yes, Ike was not credible. Really. Mr. Biggest Public Works Project in US History. Mr. Imaginary Military-Industrial Complex (it was true off US shores, but not on) and Mr. Run Away From Korea, never mind Mr. Help The Commies By Ending McCarthy(ism). He did not waver from the postwar leftist course.
And as for Truman, his firing of MacArthur was the start of the weakening of US foreign policy against the Second World, which has come back with a vengeance and on our own shores to boot.
“Loosen the flag”? Do you have a red flag around your head, I now wonder?