War Is a Racket (1933)
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War Is a Racket (1933)
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Re: War Is a Racket (1933)
#2Just in case you want a nice pdf printout read.
https://github.com/frankMilde/interesting-reads/blob/master/...
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#3>War is just a racket. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
I'd add one more, when a genocidal meglomanic is intent on wiping out an entire race of people that I would say qualifies as one more reason.
War is terrible tragic and should be avoided at almost any cost, but there is also evil in the world that needs to be stopped.
I think part of our problem in today's society is that the anyone born after 1990 has spent the majority of our lives with the country at war. If a war is worth fighting it is worth winning, if it isn't worth winning than it isn't worth fighting.
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#4>War is just a racket. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. I'd add one more, when a genocidal meglomanic is intent on wiping out an entire race of people that I would say qualifies as one more reason. War is terrible tragic and should be avoided at almost any cost, but there is also evil in the…
I think it's also crucial to ask who financed these endeavors.
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#5I thought he was going somewhere besides conspiracy theory-ville until he said "The trend is to poison us against the Japanese." By 1933 Japan needed no one to make them look bad. The invasion of Asia was well underway, and only those not paying attention were shocked by the Rape of Nanking.
If this guy was carrying water for the Imperial Japanese by 1933, he was making excuses for genocide, torture and horror on a scale impossible for a single person to take all in.
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#6I wonder what on earth could have prompted this to raise to #1 just now :)
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#7This is mostly about the WWI era, and WWI was indeed a racket, fought for elites at the expense of everyone else.
I'm curious if he would write the same article after WWII.
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#8"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket."
By that logic, six years later, were Britain and France wrong to declare war on Nazi Germany when it attacked Poland? Should the U.S. not have joined them in 1941 in declaring war in Germany, which had not attacked the U.S.? And even regarding our fighting Japan after Pearl Harbor, American homes in the continental U.S. were not under threat. So was Allied participation in WWII a "racket"? If not, why is this piece getting so many up votes?
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#9According to CBO analysis the total cost of Afghan & Iraq wars is going to be something like $2.5 trillion for the US.
Imagine if this sum would have been used mostly nonviolently for bribing and buying influence in the region. Depending how the money is distributed, it would have been:
* $35k per each person in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you divide it into households maybe something like $100k - 150k per household.
* 2.5 million millionaires, or
* assuming you need to just bribe 20,000 most influential persons/families/groups in Iraq and 10,000 in Afghanistan that would be something like $80 million each.
corruption >> war, almost every time.
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#10Conclusion of the internet Era : information is not enough. Will to act is necessary.
Just like club of rome report, this text is old news. Yet it pops up regularly and it means few.