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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (464094)3/16/2009 11:05:05 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1579807
 
It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many.

While the man must be respected for his military accomplishment, a more accurate statement would have been "SOME wars are rackets".

Obviously, WWII was not a "racket" by his own definition. Had it been a mere money-making opportunity, FDR presumably would have jumped at the chance to enter the war when Churchill was essentially begging him to do so, well before Pearl Harbor.

There is no doubt some wars have been conducted sheerly for the money in it. I don't believe the United States has ever entered one for that purpose.

Probably an even better statement is "Liberalism is a racket" -- since the purpose of liberalism is make the few at the top wealthy while making everyone else equally poor.
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