From Brad Guth:
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The mutually perpetrated cold-war era was a series of proxy wars that

brought us to 9/11 and beyond. The mostly redneck ZNRs and fellow FUD-

masters think proxy wars are sheer fun and highly profitable, as well

as insuring that as much public loot keeps going into their military

industrial complex and otherwise insures as much public funded job

security w/benefits as possible.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_war

Those proxy wars were very lucrative! And that's one more credit to Eisenhower in his parting words warning us about the military-industry complex! But did we listen? Hardly. The Space Race along with the hot wars were a free-flowing ATM-run-amok stuffing the defense industry goose like it was Foie Gras!

JFK had some sense of fiscal responsibility, and that is exactly why he wanted to stop Apollo after he had gained the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He was perfectly aware that this was the only reason he could justify raising the stakes up to the lunar realm.

Sad to think that Armstrong, among other moonwalkers, may have lived their subsequent four decades lacking in full grasp of this reality.

~ CT