In another book, “War is a Racket,” written by the most decorated Marine in history, Brigadier General Smedley Butler, we find his apology for being a military Mafioso for Wall Street and Big Business and the bankers. He confesses.
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.[1]
Please remember Butler's words when assimilating all that is going on in the Middle East and the world today.
[1] Smedly Butler, War Is A Racket, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4377.htm
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I once heard a lecture titled "War-Boom-Bust, the Cycle of Capitalistic Economies." The lecturer demonstrated the correlation between war and the downside of the capitalistic cycle. At a time of bust or economic downspin, war is initiated to help bring a return to a "boom" period. When the war becomes unpopular, it is called off. The economy slows down and moves towards a bust. As the bust period deepens, the war machine and bankers push for another war to get the economy going again. That's our economic cycle in simplistic terms "War-Boom-Bust!"
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