If you’re nation is involved in war, then naturally, you’re going to say,
“We’re the good guys!”
You may even follow it up with a few feel good phrases,
“We’re protecting our country.”
“We’re protecting democracy.”
“We’re ridding the world of terror.”
However, if you’re wise, you’ll pause just long enough to realize, that’s what the guys on the other side of the battle are saying too. They’re saying the exact same thing you are.
Well, their government, their media, and their big corporations are all pushing the “We’re the good guys and they’re the bad guys” bit, just like your government, media, and corporations are.
That’s how it works my friends.
That’s how you rally the citizenry for war.
So, to a very large degree, the question I posed is all about perspective.
The perspective always depends on whose telling the tale.
So let’s run through a little exercise today…
About a month ago, we watch the movie, “Braveheart.”
We all know that one.
It displayed the brutality of the constant war between the English and Irish in the 13th century. Now in the movie, the Irish are painted as the good guys, but the English might have something else to say about that.
No matter which side was good or bad, who died?
Why, it was the people, the ordinary citizens who perished.
World War II – Source: Time
A few weeks before “Braveheart,” we watched, “Saving Private Ryan.” The setting is World War II, ahh a little closer to our time. The images of slaughter and death were horrid.
We all know this historical moment.
Americans would easily say,
“We were the good guys!”
The Germans said the same.
“Ahh, but that’s different,” some will mutter.
I know, I know, it’s always different, and you and your nation are always right.
Nevertheless, who perished in the conflict of war?
The citizens did.
Young men were drafted and sent off to die in a war for their leader. Meanwhile, the big boys stayed home, sold more arms, more bombs that killed men, women, and children on both sides.
“A necessary evil” some will say.
I know, anything to justify war and death.
World War II – Source: RT
Let’s continue the exercise…
If we look back to the time of American Independence over the British, who were the good and bad guys?
Of course, us American folk would say,
“We’re the good guys!”
The British would say we rebelled.
That is the truth.
Our American ancestors rebelled against Britain, the nation that established us. You see, our American ancestors got tired of living under the ol English boot. We wanted to be free, so blood was shed one again.
Imagine the propaganda of the day…
Imagine what the British government, media, and big corps were saying about rebellious Americans. I mean, they rebelled against their government.
How dare they!
Imagine if Americans rebelled against their government today… Oh, but that’s another exercise for another day, let’s stay focused on the topic at hand.
So who were the good guys and bad guys in that war?
Americans would say,
“We’re the good guys!”
The British would disagree.
Now, fast forward a little more, and we have the American Indian wars.
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Who were the good guys?
“We’re the good guys,” the Americans shout!
The Indians differ.
So it’s all about perspective, it’s all about who is writing history, and who’s telling the historical tale.
In the end, who really won all of these wars?
I can hear you pondering the thought.
Pssttt…
You’re thinking too big…
Who won all of the wars in world history?
The answer is simple…
The leaders of the nations, the governments, the media, the big corporations always win.
The citizens, the common folk, the people always lose the wars.
World War II – Source: RT
Unfortunately, the people always allow themselves to be riled up by some event and the propaganda that ensues. That propaganda then leads the people to agree with their government, that war is necessary.
The people become convinced, they sign up for war, they shout from the rooftops that we must kill the enemy, so the enemy does not kill us. In the very least, we’re convinced that our nation should fund the wars of other nations, even if our men and women are not militarily involved.
Nevertheless, the most truthful fact of all…
The common people never win in any war.
Therefore, no war is just. No, not one.
If wars were even remotely just, then leaders of government, leaders of media, leaders of big corporations who prosper from war would instead, lead the charge. Our leaders would go fight the leaders of other nations, to the death.
Then, and only then, can we consider a war as just.
Then, and only then, can we consider who is the good or bad guy.
Until then, the people will remain as pawns in a large scheme designed to steal more money, power, and resources from other nations in order to enrich a few. It’s always been this way, as mankind is ruled by predominantly wicked men.
Men whose only concern is themselves, their power, and their prestige.
You mean nothing to them.
You mean so little, they’re sacrifice you and your family for their own gain, while making you feel good and patriotic about it.
Go ahead, take a look at the world, tell me I’m wrong.
How the rationale of world leaders contradicts the words of Jesus Christ our Lord.
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15:13
Which world leader, media figure or CEO ever laid down their life for you?
Not a one.
If your leaders care so much, if your leaders love you so much…
Why aren’t they doing all the fighting?
I guarantee, if our leaders were forced to fight instead of us, there would be no wars! There would be no wars, as those men would not want to lose their power, their fortunes or their lives. Instead, we’d have more peace, and less hostility.
Yet, that’s not going to happen.
So I say, war is a racket, a racket conjured up by devious men.
This is a reality that became certain to a man named Smedley Butler. He was a Major General in the United States Marine Corps. Butler was a highly decorated man, a man who could see the truth through the fog of war, a man who shared his own experience back in 1933.
In a speech Butler once said,
“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, 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 benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could 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.”
Major General Smedley Butler
Butler’s words resounded so much, he published a short book titled, “War Is A Racket.”
It truly is.
War only means death for the citizenry, death for the common man, but riches for the elite of society.
In war, there are no good guys.
There’s only death and destruction.
There’s the dead, composed of the common man. There’s broken families and destroyed works. Then, there’s the elite who are richly rewarded for financing the war, for building the weapons of war, the same who profit by rebuilding from the ruins.
World War II – Source: RT
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Who Are The Good Guys And Bad Guys In War?
Have you ever asked yourself that question?
In the conflict of war:
If you’re nation is involved in war, then naturally, you’re going to say,
You may even follow it up with a few feel good phrases,
However, if you’re wise, you’ll pause just long enough to realize, that’s what the guys on the other side of the battle are saying too. They’re saying the exact same thing you are.
Why are they doing that?
Well, their government, their media, and their big corporations are all pushing the “We’re the good guys and they’re the bad guys” bit, just like your government, media, and corporations are.
That’s how it works my friends.
That’s how you rally the citizenry for war.
So, to a very large degree, the question I posed is all about perspective.
The perspective always depends on whose telling the tale.
So let’s run through a little exercise today…
About a month ago, we watch the movie, “Braveheart.”
We all know that one.
It displayed the brutality of the constant war between the English and Irish in the 13th century. Now in the movie, the Irish are painted as the good guys, but the English might have something else to say about that.
No matter which side was good or bad, who died?
Why, it was the people, the ordinary citizens who perished.
A few weeks before “Braveheart,” we watched, “Saving Private Ryan.” The setting is World War II, ahh a little closer to our time. The images of slaughter and death were horrid.
We all know this historical moment.
Americans would easily say,
The Germans said the same.
I know, I know, it’s always different, and you and your nation are always right.
Nevertheless, who perished in the conflict of war?
The citizens did.
Young men were drafted and sent off to die in a war for their leader. Meanwhile, the big boys stayed home, sold more arms, more bombs that killed men, women, and children on both sides.
I know, anything to justify war and death.
Let’s continue the exercise…
If we look back to the time of American Independence over the British, who were the good and bad guys?
Of course, us American folk would say,
The British would say we rebelled.
That is the truth.
Our American ancestors rebelled against Britain, the nation that established us. You see, our American ancestors got tired of living under the ol English boot. We wanted to be free, so blood was shed one again.
Imagine the propaganda of the day…
Imagine what the British government, media, and big corps were saying about rebellious Americans. I mean, they rebelled against their government.
How dare they!
Imagine if Americans rebelled against their government today… Oh, but that’s another exercise for another day, let’s stay focused on the topic at hand.
So who were the good guys and bad guys in that war?
Americans would say,
The British would disagree.
Now, fast forward a little more, and we have the American Indian wars.
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Who were the good guys?
The Indians differ.
So it’s all about perspective, it’s all about who is writing history, and who’s telling the historical tale.
In the end, who really won all of these wars?
I can hear you pondering the thought.
Pssttt…
You’re thinking too big…
Who won all of the wars in world history?
The answer is simple…
The leaders of the nations, the governments, the media, the big corporations always win.
The citizens, the common folk, the people always lose the wars.
Unfortunately, the people always allow themselves to be riled up by some event and the propaganda that ensues. That propaganda then leads the people to agree with their government, that war is necessary.
The people become convinced, they sign up for war, they shout from the rooftops that we must kill the enemy, so the enemy does not kill us. In the very least, we’re convinced that our nation should fund the wars of other nations, even if our men and women are not militarily involved.
Nevertheless, the most truthful fact of all…
The common people never win in any war.
Therefore, no war is just. No, not one.
If wars were even remotely just, then leaders of government, leaders of media, leaders of big corporations who prosper from war would instead, lead the charge. Our leaders would go fight the leaders of other nations, to the death.
Until then, the people will remain as pawns in a large scheme designed to steal more money, power, and resources from other nations in order to enrich a few. It’s always been this way, as mankind is ruled by predominantly wicked men.
Men whose only concern is themselves, their power, and their prestige.
You mean nothing to them.
You mean so little, they’re sacrifice you and your family for their own gain, while making you feel good and patriotic about it.
Go ahead, take a look at the world, tell me I’m wrong.
How the rationale of world leaders contradicts the words of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Which world leader, media figure or CEO ever laid down their life for you?
Not a one.
If your leaders care so much, if your leaders love you so much…
Why aren’t they doing all the fighting?
I guarantee, if our leaders were forced to fight instead of us, there would be no wars! There would be no wars, as those men would not want to lose their power, their fortunes or their lives. Instead, we’d have more peace, and less hostility.
Yet, that’s not going to happen.
So I say, war is a racket, a racket conjured up by devious men.
This is a reality that became certain to a man named Smedley Butler. He was a Major General in the United States Marine Corps. Butler was a highly decorated man, a man who could see the truth through the fog of war, a man who shared his own experience back in 1933.
In a speech Butler once said,
Butler’s words resounded so much, he published a short book titled, “War Is A Racket.”
It truly is.
War only means death for the citizenry, death for the common man, but riches for the elite of society.
In war, there are no good guys.
There’s only death and destruction.
There’s the dead, composed of the common man. There’s broken families and destroyed works. Then, there’s the elite who are richly rewarded for financing the war, for building the weapons of war, the same who profit by rebuilding from the ruins.