The vet Critical Eye wants to salute is Smedley Darlington
Butler. Butler was a Marine general, and the highest decorated soldier of his
time, unequivocal and unassailable on the topic of war. Here are a couple choice quotes from him:
“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…”
"Beautiful ideals were
painted for our boys who were sent out to die. This was to be the "war to
end wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for
democracy." No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason.
No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying
would mean huge war profits…”
Lots more at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/115545.Smedley_D_Butler
or get his book called War is a Racket. We need to reconnect
with Butler, then get our critical eyes and ears on and ask questions like: What did
George Bush, Donald Trump et al do while ordinary boys were dying in Vietnam
and elsewhere?
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