War Racket Essay

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I have to complete agree with this portion of this speech and book. Written by retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two time Medal of Honor recipient Smedly D. Butler. He described how business interests commercially benefit from war. From his career of a military officer. The book has significance historically as Butler points out in 1935 that the US is engaging in military war games. He describes the war to be profitable in profits but losses of many lives. His description of a racket is something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small portion of “inside” people are aware of what is really taking place. He states that war only benefit very few people, and yet is at the expense of many people. In the world war, he mentions that only a handful of people became millionaire and billionaires and yet many lost their lives, and others waited to get the payment for even participating in the war. He described it as “many admitted their blood gains on their tax returns. How many of these ware millionaires shouldered a riffle?” Which I feel that he is absolutely correct. Men left their families and homes months at a time, to benefit very few people. In which in some cases never made it home. And once the war was over, if they were victorious, very few took over the territory and the rest of the U.S. are the ones to pay for it. He describes the payment to be the death of those who lost their lives to get the few people where

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