Take all the "terrorism" since WW2 and it doesn't compare with the carnage of one Marine Corps General, Smedley Butler, who used the US military to overthrow 3rd world governments for NY and London banks. He finally woke up when Prescott Bush, et al, asked him to overthrow the US Government in 1934 with a 500,000 man army (see McCormack-Dickstein Committee), then Butler wrote the book,
War is a Racket.
Smedley Butler wrote: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. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
All this statistical finger pointing seems odd when you consider who is the real engine for violence in our world, and it certainly isn't "terrorists". Is it that tough to figure this stuff out?
