War Is A Racket

This is an excellent quick read. If you don’t have ADHD, it’s a quick read. I started this book before Thanksgiving so between the holidays and every day crazy train I finally finished it. Of course, I made notes in each chapter about my thoughts. We’ll see if this helped compared to the chapter-by-chapter review we did on The New Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man by John Perkins.

Throughout the book, General Butler covers the ins and outs of war. He looks at the financial cost and the human cost. He starts out by explaining how the military-industrial complex was formed. Which I do think is critical. Most people in America don’t understand what the military-industrial complex is. Never mind how it is used. I am not going into detail here just read The New Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man. You will understand the order in which things unfold. The minority of Americans know who profits from war and who doesn’t. General Butler covers that as well. You will notice I said ‘minority’ because those of us who have watched a veteran know the pain that war causes while a select few prosper.

I think chapter four was the most important which is why I am going to focus on it here. General Butler explained how to smash the war machine ie the military-industrial complex.

TAKE AWAY THE PROFITS. How? You put every person from political parasitic puppets to defense contractor CEOs on the same salary that a soldier in the trenches makes. What would that look like? Imagine Senator Micheal Johnson Speaker of The House only making say two or three thousand a month which is what a soldier in the trenches makes. Also, Laurence K. Marshall, the monster who created Raytheon, only receives the same amount as the Speaker of The House who is only getting what the soldier in the trenches gets which is about two to three thousand a month. Now make this the universal salary a war that everyone would receive, NO EXCEPTIONS. Do you really think these folks would want war if that is all they would get during a war? I doubt it. There’d go their ability to buy five-thousand-dollar steaks.
LET THOSE WHO WOULD FIGHT WAR VOTE FOR WAR. Here is a genius idea. Let the people who would be forced to fight the ridiculous wars that are based on greed vote with accurate information. Not the nonsense of “We know Saddam Hussien has WMDs” and lets not forget the “We know Osama Bin Ladin orchestrated 9/11” with ZERO evidence to show for it. Yeah! Let the people know here is what is going on and you or your loved ones will have to fight so we can get stupidly wealthy. Do you think citizens would vote yes for a war? NO!
LIMIT MILITARY EXERCISES. Yeah! Limit how far the American military could go off our shores. Period! The military will be about defending America. There is a crazy idea.
FINALLY, ARM THE YOUTH AND GENERAL PUBLIC. This is a great idea. In 1942, the Soviet Military invaded Finland. Yes the Finnish Military did do the majority of the fighting, but they knew the public was ar