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I AM SO TIRED OF WAR

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I wasn’t at all surprised to hear that since 1945 there has been only one year when Britain wasn’t involved in a conflict somewhere.

I recall a palace journalist describing Britain as a peace-loving nation; I am surprised he kept his face straight. Perhaps I read it wrong and he meant Britain wants a piece of this and a piece of that wherever it can find it.

It is no use changing your residencia to Spanish nationality. The Spaniards have an even worse record of pillage and plunder. According to Professor Quincy Wright, in the period 1480 to 1940, there were 278 wars in which European nations were involved.

THE PIT BULL TERRIERS OF EUROPE

Engaged in 28 percent of them England leads the pack. France (26%) wasn’t far behind and Spain (23%) and Russia (22%) were hanging on to the tails of soldiers’ tunics.

The distinguished Russian-American sociologist Pitirim Sorokin reveals that from the 12th century to 1925 Spain spent 67% of the period at war.

Poland came second at 58% with England at 56%. These were followed in descending order by France, Russia, Holland, Italy and Germany.

THE GREATEST ROBBERS AND MARAUDERS

Given Britain’s record since 1945, it has probably taken the podium of incivility awards. These conflicts include India, Palestine, Malaya, Korea, the Suez Canal Zone, and Kenya.

Cyprus, Suez 1956, Borneo, Vietnam, Aden, Radfan, Oman, Dhofar, Northern Ireland, the Falklands War, Oman, the Gulf War, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. You may know of more.

Each conflict marches to the same old tune: we always do it for the betterment of the natives. It is just coincidental that whilst freeing others from despotism we stumble upon mineral deposits and other assets.

As Henry Labouchere, the 19th century English Liberal MP and outspoken journalist put it: “We are without exception the greatest robbers and marauders that ever existed on the face of the globe.

“We are worse than other countries because we are hypocrites also, for we plunder and always pretend to do so for other people’s good.”

THE SCREAMING AND LIES AND THE HATRED

Another feature of war, according to George Orwell is that ‘all the war propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.’

I suppose one has to be the eternal optimist to believe in change; that the world will peacefully co-exist in a bank-free barter co-operative, and swords will be turned into ploughshares.

As someone said, “It will be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.”

Can we stop war? Of course, we can. Wars cannot be fought without the manufacture of weapons, uniforms and war apparatus that underpin them.

If those who despise murder and theft refuse to work in armaments factories, build military installations; refuse to make a uniform or the spoils of war then the corpse of conflict will be placed in the tomb of the Unknown Soldier; hopefully to never raise its coffin lid.

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  1. HERE IS A QUOTE FROM THE REAL RAT (FERENGI) WHO CONTROLS ALL WARS. “I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.” Amschel Rothschild

    BELOW IS WHAT MAJOR GEN. SMEDLEY D BUTLER HAD TO SAY ABOUT WAR!
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    1935 cover from the first printingAuthorSmedley D. Butler
    (Major general (Ret.), USMC)LanguageEnglishSubject

    PublisherRound Table Press

    Publication date1935Publication placeUnited StatesPages51 (first edition)ISBN9780922915866OCLC3015073

    Dewey Decimal172.4LC ClassHB195 .B8[1]

    War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps major general and two-time Medal of Honor recipient.[2][3] Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the 1915–1934 United States occupation of Haiti.

    After Butler retired from the US Marine Corps in October 1931, he made a nationwide tour in the early 1930s giving his speech “War Is a Racket”. The speech was so well received that he wrote a longer version as a short book published in 1935. His work was condensed in Reader’s Digest as a book supplement, which helped popularize his message. In an introduction to the Reader’s Digest version, Lowell Thomas, who wrote Butler’s oral autobiography, praised Butler’s “moral as well as physical courage”.[4]Contents

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    In War Is a Racket, Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists, whose operations were subsidized by public funding, were able to generate substantial profits, making money from mass human suffering.

    The work is divided into five chapters:

    1. War is a racket
    2. Who makes the profits?
    3. Who pays the bills?
    4. How to smash this racket!
    5. To hell with war!

    It contains this summary:

    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 the 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.

    Butler confesses that during his decades of service in the United States Marine Corps:

    I helped make Mexico, 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 benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909–1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

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    In the booklet’s penultimate chapter, Butler recommends three steps to disrupt the war racket:

    1. Making war unprofitable. Butler suggests that the means for war should be “conscripted” before those who would fight the war:It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labour before the nation’s manhood can be conscripted. […] Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our steel companies and our munitions makers and our ship-builders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted — to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get.
    2. Acts of war to be decided by those who fight it. He also suggests a limited referendum to determine if the war is to be fought. Eligible to vote would be those who risk death on the front lines.
    3. Limitation of militaries to self-defense. For the United States, Butler recommends that the Navy be limited, by law, to operating within 200 miles of the coastline, and the Army restricted to the territorial limits of the country, ensuring that war, if fought, can never be one of aggression.

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