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>Never hurts to quote this classic <http://www.fas.org/man/smedley.htm>:
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>Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
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>War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as
>something that is not what it seems to the majority of 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 masses.
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apparently they don't make generals like the way they used to.....
~M.E.