"I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag." -- Major General Smedley Darling Butler (1881-1940) Major General USMC, "Old Gimlet Eye'' and "Hell Devil Darling", one of the most highly decorated military men from the pre-World War II era. Source: from a speech in 1933.
http://rationalrevolution.net/war/major_general_smedley_butler_usm.htm
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/major+general+smedley+darlington+butler
I received this Quote some days ago from Information Clearing House. I think I totally dismissed its wisdom and truth until this morning, when the same words began to rattle in my head.
The rich man wages war and the common man does the dying.
We always seem to understand the senseless, dishonest nature of war after our surviving and wounded are home for a while. With about a decades worth of firm resolve, we vow to never let this happen again. Yet, before the bill has been settled, there begins the rattling. Sabers!
~NED~
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