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Originally Posted by Tannhauser
What were the clearly stated goals for our numerous interventions/wars in...blah, blah, blah
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Here's how West Chester's own Smedley Butler (1881-1940), commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, phrased it: "I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and, especially, Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested.”
Of course, that's not how those little wars were advertised, and why we've had to do so much touching up down there over the years.
11-15-2007, 01:00 PM
