In his book “War Is A Racket”, the wonderfully-named Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler described his service of 33 years in the military as being just “a muscle-man for Big Business, Wall Street and the bankers”.
Coming from America’s most decorated serviceman, this was pretty heavy artillery fire and not exactly great recruitment copy.
I mean, here you are, freshly enlisted, crisply uniformed and ready to defend freedom, democracy, apple pie and the right to buy large-caliber machine guns at Walmart’s, and some highly-decorated general comes in and spits in your pineapple pizza.
Personally, I don’t mind the idea of being a muscle-man for Big Business, Wall Stre
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