What would prompt this man to write what he did ?
"It would have been far cheaper (not to say safer) for the average American who pays the bills to stay out of foreign entanglements. For a very few this racket, like bootlegging and other underworld rackets, brings fancy profits, but the cost of operations is always transferred to the people ? who do not profit."
WAR IS A RACKET
http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/anti...s-a-racket.htm
by Smedley Darlington Butler
- Major General - United States Marine Corps [Retired]
- Awarded two congressional medals of honor, for capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914
and for capture of Ft. Riviere, Haiti, 1917
- Distinguished service medal, 1919
Retired Oct. 1, 1931
- Republican Candidate for Senate, 1932
- Died at Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, June 21, 1940
"It would have been far cheaper (not to say safer) for the average American who pays the bills to stay out of foreign entanglements. For a very few this racket, like bootlegging and other underworld rackets, brings fancy profits, but the cost of operations is always transferred to the people ? who do not profit."
WAR IS A RACKET
http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/anti...s-a-racket.htm
by Smedley Darlington Butler
- Major General - United States Marine Corps [Retired]
- Awarded two congressional medals of honor, for capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914
and for capture of Ft. Riviere, Haiti, 1917
- Distinguished service medal, 1919
Retired Oct. 1, 1931
- Republican Candidate for Senate, 1932
- Died at Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, June 21, 1940
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