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 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.
Major General Smedley D. Butler
US Marine Corps
Two-time winner Congressional Medal of Honor
1935
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