Best Military Industrial Complex Analogy Ever.
I must share this line, taken from my reading (Bill Bryson's Made in America):
"At the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry would make a famous remark (curiously absent from modern high school textbooks) in which he compared a standing army to an erect penis--'an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.' "
If that doesn't just about sum the state of our foreign policy today, I just don't know what does.
"At the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry would make a famous remark (curiously absent from modern high school textbooks) in which he compared a standing army to an erect penis--'an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.' "
If that doesn't just about sum the state of our foreign policy today, I just don't know what does.