Edited, Excerpted from
Dwight David Eisenhower’s 1953 Inaugural Address
“How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward the light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?”[M]an’s power to achieve good or to inflict evil surpasses the brightest hopes and the sharpest fears of all ages… Yet the promise of this life is imperiled by the very genius that has made it possible. Nations amass wealth. Labor sweats to create—and turns out devices to level not only mountains but also cities. Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.”“We know… that we are linked to all free peoples not merely by a noble idea but by a simple need. … For all our own material might …, we need for (our) farms and factories vital materials and products of distant lands. … Manifest in the commerce of peace (is) this basic law of interdependence ….” We are persuaded by necessity and by belief that the strength of all free peoples lies in unity; their danger, in discord.” We are pleading our just cause before the bar of history …, guided by certain fixed principles.…
Statesmanship should be the first task in developing strength that will deter forces of aggression; and promote conditions of peace.
Never try to placate an aggressor with false and wicked bargain, trading honor for security.
The firm duty… of every free citizen everywhere (is) to place the cause of one’s country before the comfort, the convenience of oneself.Never use our strength to try to impress upon another people our own cherished political and economic institutions—honor the identity and the special heritage of each nation in the world.
Strive to help “proven friends of freedom”—whose needs and capacities have been assessed realistically— “to achieve their own security and well-being;” and “count upon them to assume, within the limits of their resources, their full and just burdens in the common defense of freedom.”
Impoverishment of any single people in the world means danger to the well-being of all other peoples…;” (thus) “we shall strive to foster everywhere—and to practice ourselves—policies that courage productivity and profitable trade.” “[W]ithin the framework of the United Nations …, we hope to help strengthen such special bonds the world over.” … We respect the United Nations (and) shall strive to make it not merely an eloquent symbol but an effective force: the living representation of all people’s hope and never to be compromised quest for an honorable peace.
“We hold all continents and peoples in equal regard and honor.
“We reject any insinuation that one race or another, one people or another,
is in any sense inferior or expendable.”
Far from “Ike”
Plunge into the Abyss
Mercenary-made Manifesto
Relentless Inhumanity to Man
Men (and women) investors and abusers ensure enormous and sustained wealth, power and profit for themselves and their incestuous society.
Someone has coined a “Doctrine” of the USA War Industry which is executed at home and abroad; against American inhabitants, from the mountains to the seas; and flung far and wide against the planet: against peoples and nations and nature itself.
Doctrinal syllabus
- Oversimplification (propaganda, manipulation, instill ignorance and inferior education)
- Polarization (demonization, divide, blame)
- Disinformation (harness media and technological personalities and mechanisms to plant and spread colossal untruths)
Mercenaries, Madmen, Executioners
John Robert Bolton and Michael Richard Pompeo are Washington, D.C., hangers-on; one born in Baltimore, Maryland, the other in Orange, California, who managed to avoid the close and sustained heat of war, snagged an Ivy League JD (one Yale, one Harvard); cozied up to the pinnacle of U.S. power (more than 30 years); and have been tireless in their maliciousness and egged-on aggression against foreign nations, peoples, and individuals, and international institutionsForty-five years after Eisenhower’s inaugural and 53 years after the establishment of the United Nations, the General Assembly of the UN convened in Rome and adopted the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court at The Hague (Netherlands) and describing its jurisdiction and rules of operation. The United States is not a signatory to the ICC; and high-placed officials in and around the U.S. foreign affairs sector (particularly in the backdrop of continuous U.S. wars, torture and other crimes against humanity) have viciously attacked the UN and the ICC.
In his position as U.S. Secretary of State (before that, CIA chief), Pompeo threatened the ICC: specifically, he threatened to unleash the power of the United States to revoke or deny “‘visas to International Criminal Court personnel seeking to investigate alleged war crimes and other abuses committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere.’”In his position of National Security Advisor, Bolton (whose nomination had been previously rejected for unfitness) also threatened the ICC: specifically, the banning of ICC “‘judges and prosecutors from entering the United States’”; tying up (sanctioning) “‘their funds in the U.S. financial system;’” and prosecuting the judges and prosecutors “in the U.S. criminal system.’” Bolton also expanded his threats to “‘any company or state that assists an ICC investigation of Americans.’”
“We will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the United States. We will sanction their funds in the U.S. financial system, and we will prosecute them in the U.S. criminal system. We will do the same for any company or state that assists an ICC investigation of Americans.”Among Bolton’s other ethnocentrisms or anti-Eisenhower’isms was a 2013 eruption in an opinion piece in which he is found quoting himself.
“I once said that by any objective standard, justification existed for only one permanent member (of the United Nations Security Council): namely, the United States.”
The United Nations Security Council convened its first session in London, England, in January of 1946. After that session, it took up residence at the New York City, New York, United Nations Headquarters.
The UNSC is composed of five permanent members (People’s Republic of China, French Republic, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and United States of America.Of the 193 current Member States of the United Nations (the international body founded in 1945), more than 50 “have never been Members of the UN Security Council.”
Added or periphery to the Permanent Five are 10 two-year termed non-permanent members elected by the UN General Assembly. The current non-permanent members and their ending years: Albania (2023), Brazil (2023), Ecuador (2024), Gabon (2023), Ghana (2023), Japan (2024), Malta (2024), Mozambique (2024), Switzerland (2024), United Arab Emirates (2023).
Bolton insisted.
“Even more problematic is the substantial number of other countries thinking they deserve permanent membership: Japan, India, Pakistan, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico and more.”
Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower (husband of “Mamie” until death) who in later years played golf at the Augusta National
Rose from the U.S. Southwest and Heartland (Texas and Kansas) and actually served his country: active Military service 38 years 1915–1953 (inactive 1961–1969):
- Military Governor of the U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany May 8, 1945 – November 10, 1945
- Army Chief of Staff November 19, 1945 – February 6, 1948
- First Supreme Allied Commander Europe April 2, 1951 – May 30, 1952
- Thirty-fourth President of the United States January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961.
Mary Geneva “Mamie” Eisenhower (née Doud), First Lady 1953 – 1961; lifetime November 14, 1896 – November 1, 1979
Sources
Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953, Eisenhower Library “Dwight D. Eisenhower taking the Oath of Office of the President of the United States, delivered in person at the U.S. Capitol https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/1953_inaugural_address.pdf
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/speeches
“Rule of Law, American Style: John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court” March 27, 2019 by Yves Smith, https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/03/rule-of-law-american-style-john-bolton-and-mike-pompeo-defy-the-international-criminal-court.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo
“BOLTON: The myth of a United Nations” COMMENTARY by John R. Bolton - The Washington Times - Tuesday, September 24, 2013, OPINION, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/24/bolton-the-myth-of-a-united-nations/
United Nations
https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/current-members
https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/what-security-council
https://www.un.org/en/about-us
U.S. President and First Lady Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/speeches
“Rule of Law, American Style: John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court” March 27, 2019 by Yves Smith, https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/03/rule-of-law-american-style-john-bolton-and-mike-pompeo-defy-the-international-criminal-court.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo
“BOLTON: The myth of a United Nations” COMMENTARY by John R. Bolton - The Washington Times - Tuesday, September 24, 2013, OPINION, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/24/bolton-the-myth-of-a-united-nations/
United Nations
https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/current-members
https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/what-security-council
https://www.un.org/en/about-us
U.S. President and First Lady Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Eisenhower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower
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