Thursday, March 02, 2006

Today's Google

By Stieger

War Is a Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler
Posted by David Codrea at 3/02/2006 09:03:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yup, war is hell. There are millions,maybe three or so million people in this country today who think exactly like this guy did. I agree. War is bad. Very bad. But it is not the worst thing. The degraded state of individuals who will not lift a finger to defend themselves, their families, their homes, their country, is the worst state of mankind. But worse still will be the result, endless,mindless,slavery to the victors who were aggressive enough. When your wives,sweethearts,children,and the very few old among you are at the beck,call and whim of those who are the slavemasters, count yourself lucky to die.

3/03/2006 9:29 AM
Anonymous said...

General Butler's position had nothing to do with the relative pleasantness of war. His argument was that war is a racket, a criminal enterprise, engineered means of doing business carried out by billionaire hoodlums.

Neither had General Butler anything to say about the consequences of placing second in a war.

As to whether or not there are “maybe three or so million people in this country today who think exactly like this guy did,” I wouldn’t know. But you can count me among them.

But maybe that two or three or so million people (& me) are unaware of a war – any war! Any war in, say, the last hundred years or so that would not fit General Butler’s definition.

--Stieger

3/04/2006 5:48 AM

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