He saw the inevitible demise

Sometimes people can see things that others can't. I never really researched Dwight D. Eisenhower's political ambitions and achievements but he was one of those people. Throughout his 2 terms as the president of the United States, he saw things beginning to happen. I wish more people saw them. Perhaps they were inevitible or perhaps that we were too far in to our current ways at the time but they did in fact happen. Now we're stuck in our ways. It depresses me sometimes. Maybe the Romans are not the only empire of the world to be the cause of their own failure. I implore you to read part of Eisenhower's farewell address below. Please read it.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Military-Industrial_Complex_Speech

"The cost of one heavy modern bomber is this: A modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants each serving a town of sixty thousand population. It is two fine fully equipped hospitals…. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron… Modern weapons take food from the hungry and shelter from the homeless."

~President Dwight D. Eisenhower