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Indeed however as twice decorated congressional medal of honor winner


major general Smedley Butler (that's a tough name to wear) said about using American military for American interests, "I was a gangster for capitalism"!
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

(In response to this post by Beerman)

Posted: 09/16/2020 at 12:04PM



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