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Without offering comment, I give you an excerpt of what is perhaps President Dwight Eisenhower's second best known speech. The best known would of course be the "Military Industrial Complex" speech, where he warned of the need to "guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."

In what is known as the "Cross of Iron" speech, Eisenhower offered a world view we seem to have left behind, to the loss of the country.

In that speech, delivered in 1953 to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Eisenhower set forth five precepts which the United States should be governed by:

"First: No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

Second: No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations.

Third: Any nation's right to form of government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable.

Fourth: Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

And fifth: A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations."

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UAB Band Dad Wrote:"First: No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

That one statement has not been true for quite some time - unfortunately.

As a result of that change, the other states became inaccurate as well.

I disagree sir. The operative word in that sentence is "people". Not dictator, ayatollah, etc. No matter how bad things are in our relations with any country, I am not given to condemnation of whole nations of people.

I'd also have to disagree regarding the idea that if one statement is wrong, all the rest are. I'll not bother to make the effort to make a list of things where 4 of 5 are obviously true and one is not.

Even if you disagree with statement one, how can you disagree with three and four?