War Is A Racket
Sep. 2nd, 2023 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo We've committed ourselves to holding a Quaker vigil for Peace a week from tomorrow. It's timed to coincide with the DSEI arms fair in London. I think we'll arrange ourselves somewhere in the vicinity of the Eastbourne War Memorial. We have placards. Now what we need is texts to go on the placards.
I favour
War is Hell
General William T. Sherman
War is a Racket
Major General Smedley D Butler
War is Stupid
Boy George
I also like the idea of exhibiting Butler's precis of his thesis about war which goes...
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.
I favour
War is Hell
General William T. Sherman
War is a Racket
Major General Smedley D Butler
War is Stupid
Boy George
I also like the idea of exhibiting Butler's precis of his thesis about war which goes...
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.
