Military Industrial Complex

Sometimes you find out something that is just so eye opening that it changes your entire outlook on life. Reading the speech that Eisenhower made in his farewell address in 1961 was one such thing. I have heard the phrase Military Industrial Complex, before but never really tied any of it together. I mean it just sounds like something some commie or hippie would say. What it ended up being was one of the most eloquent and timely speeches I have ever heard. Here's a link to it. http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html
I have read little on Dwight D. Eisenhower and all I have read has to do with World War 2. I also know that he was a big proponent of our highway system. Eisenhower may as well have been Nostrodamus. He hits the nail so hard and so square that you'd think he's got a chrystal ball. He warns us about letting government get too much power. He warns us about letting the military form policy on its own and to its own benefit. My feeling is that anyone that talks that way these days is basicly labled a pussy. Eisenhower didn't come up with this idea on his own. He drew on a century and a half of knowledge given to him by our forefathers. All the leaders since have bought into the idea that they can make money off of our fear. That they can play on our emotions and manipulate our will. I am really afraid that the power that Eisenhower spoke of has already landed in the wrong peoples hands and they are right now causing us permanent damage both in relations with our neighbors and our own people.