Okay fellas, say what you will but let us not forget the immortal words of Marine General Smedly Darlington Butler, twice awarded the Medal of Honor: "All U.S. wars are rackets. I was nothing but a hit man for Wall Street."

He wrote a wonderful little book with the same title: All wars are Rackets. Check it out on Amazon, etc.

And getting back to the time preceding WWII, don't forget that FDR, after eight miserable years of his depression and 25% unemployment, had to do something desperate to get the boys employed. And what better way than to generate a war to make the world safe for democracy and to get the wheels of commerce spinning once again, etc.

Sorry to say it, but even the first war of the new republic was a war, not for independence for the common folks, but for real estate speculators who wanted to go beyond the Appalacians to scoop up cheap land for like a few cents an acre. However, King George--not the present one but the first one--decreed that that was his domain and his alone. Cui bono?

How is it possible that no one, but no one, reading this website mentioned the most important and relevant latin phrase which each and every one of us should be aware of? Cui bono! Which is what Cicero is reputed to have said when a new piece of legislation was passed in the Roman senate: Who benefits? Who indeed with the rivers of new legislation cascading out of the 49 states and the imperial halls of congress?