You’ve Been Warned – Calls for Mandatory “National Service” for Americans Aged 18-28 Has Begun
CHAPTER ONE
War is a Racket
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.
– From Major General Smedley Butler’s War is a Rackett
