Doug Miller wrote:

In article , "William Wixon" wrote:

i was on I-90 yesterday, thinking about this. passed one of those signs
that say "the eisenhower interstate highway system" and i wondered to myself
"how could those guys on r.c.m. possibly criticize something so plainly and
obviously beneficial to americans as this "eisenhower interstate highway
system"?!" of course i know there would/could/are criticisms of it. i was
thinking eisenhower came back from the war after seeing how ("socialist"?)
germany built their autobahn and figured it was a good idea.

Well, yes, he did, but that didn't have anything at all to do with socialism.

Don't you know why the interstate highway system was designed? It wasn't so
you could go visit your aunt in Topeka, or to move oranges from Florida to
Minnesota more easily.

The interstate highway system was built for rapid movement of troops and tanks
and guns and bombs. That it happens also to be enormously useful for commerce
and civilian transportation is merely a side effect of its original purpose.


Those who are old enough, remember the Military Police directing
convoys through towns large and small. They ignored traffic lights and
civilian traffic had to wait, unless it was an emergency vehicle. Even
that made it take weeks or months to cross the US. if you happened to
be going the same direction as the convoy, you had to ignore the traffic
lights and stop signs too. They got quite upset if you caused the
convoy to stop.

In a military emergency, the military has priority on the interstate
highways.


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