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Joseph Mengele and his cohorts injected chemicals into Jewish captives during the Holocaust and watched them be tortured to death from it, including children. They loved experimenting on twins – [...]
1990. at first george h.w. bush and bill clinton begin to reduce the military because there was no longer this existential threat to our citizens, and then dick cheney and the other knee o'cons purr said george bush they can use the threat of terrorism as the functional political ee kwiv lent of come nation. the terrorists are terrible people, and i am very pleased that we are fighting against them, but they're not hitler, and they're not stalin. they don't threaten our existence as a country. they're threatening our lives. we have to fight them back, but that threat was blown up beyond the re...
This fear that we were going to be attacked by somebody powerful. that led to military spending that i think in some cases was excessive. the soviet union collapses in 1990, and first george h.w. bush and bill clinton begive to reduce the military because there was no longer this existential threat to our citizens, and then dick cheney and the other neocons persuade george bush they can use the threat of terrorism as the functional political equivalent of communism. the terrorists are terrible people, and i am very pleased that we are fighting against them, but they're not hitler, and they're ...
I guess assuming times have changed enough to make this less risky. do you think times have changed enough? >> i do, and you're exactly right. it is historic, and frankly, the timeline is beyond that. remember, john kennedy, whom i generally admired, ran against richard nixon on the grounds that the republicans hadn't spent enough on defense, there had been a missile gap, and for years, i have been involved in this, democratic candidates for president were told, your one vulnerability is if you're weak on defense. that's why a really superb public ver servant, michael dukakis, made the mistake...
Remember, john kennedy, whom i generally admired, ran against richard nixon on the grounds that the republicans hadn't spent enough on defense, there had been a missile gap, and for years, i have been involved in this, democratic candidates for president were told, your one vulnerability is if you're weak on defense. that's why a really superb public serviceant michael dukakis made the mistake of being in the tank, he was a veteran, had a right to do it, but it didn't look good. i think what has happened is this, rachel. for 60 years, the american public was focused on -- 50 years, from 1940 t...