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War is a Racket II: How the United States Government manipulates the country into unnecessary wars and military interventions.
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This is not an anti-war book. Rather, the book is about the bad behavior of the US government in Washington, DC, in taking the country into military adventures when it is not necessary. To state that the country should never go to war would be irresponsible. Wars cannot always be avoided. A characteristic of the United States foreign policy establishment is their refusal to admit they made a mistake. There are never any consequences for invading the wrong country. The establishment carries on as if everything is okay, and they quickly forget about the dead and crippled. Currently, the US has approximately 800 bases in seventy countries. As of November 2016, the US was dropping bombs on seven different countries. This book does not favor either political party. However, some may disagree. In 1935, retired General Smedley Butler published a small book entitled War Is a Racket, which explained how and why the US Government manipulates the country into various wars and military interventions for power and their own selfish interest. This is an update on General Butlers 1935 book. Most of us have heard or read the following words many times. We are forced to go to war or do a military intervention to save our liberty and freedom, to make the world safe for democracy, a war to end all wars, to save the world from communist or whatever, to protect American lives, to save the world from a country that might possess weapons of mass destruction, etc. This is a book explaining how the United States government manipulated and lied its way into a number of wars and military interventions. This information will not normally be taught in your school history class or viewed on your history channel. This is not conspiracy theory stuff. You can look it all up. This information is available to all citizens if they care to research it. Some of this information may shock you.

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War is a Racket II

How the United States Government manipulates the country into unnecessary wars and military interventions.

Robert F. Boland

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.

New York, NY

First originally published by Page Publishing, Inc. 2019

ISBN 978-1-64462-726-6 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64462-727-3 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

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Introduction

T his is a book explaining how the United States manipulated and lied its way into a number of wars and military interventions. Many people, when they read this manuscript, may conclude without reading very far that this is a conspiracy theory. However, this is not conspiracy theory stuff. This is information based on a lot of research, which is available to everyone if they care to look it up. No good American wants to believe that our political leaders and the media would lie and manipulate the country into war, but they do. This book is for a realist.

Traditionally, our presidents are not seen as conspirators manipulating the United States into war, and our education system forgets to tell us the whole story. We are taught that our presidents and Congress usually go to war to make the world safe for democracy, freedom, and justice for all; one more holy crusade. The truth is that presidents and Congress usually chose for personal gain over the national interest. This book is certainly not meant to be unpatriotic or un-American or even anti-war. War can be necessary on some occasions. The purpose of this book is to tell the truth about the conduct of the United States political class.

When presidents sacrifice the life and limbs of our soldiers, they generally do it for their own selfish interest. For example, George Washington and the Founding Fathers went to war with England; our education led us to believe that this was to obtain freedom from England, stamp acts, intolerable acts, the Boston Massacre, and numerous other complaints (de Mesquita and Smith 2016). The reality was that George Washington and most of the Founding Fathers were extremely wealthy and influential men. Many of them were large land speculators. England was passing laws that restricted their land speculations and damaged their wealth (de Mesquita and Smith 2016). They were concerned about protecting their wealth. In 1775, there was much unclaimed land to speculate on. King George III was restricting the Founding Fathers opportunities and land acquisition. So we went to war.

The war of 1812 was fought for the same reasons as the Revolutionary War (de Mesquita and Smith 2016). Sometimes the War of 1812 was called the second revolutionary war, although it had very little to do with its publicly listed complaints. The fact was that the British and their allies, the American Indians, were standing in the way of the land speculators and the American settlers, especially in the Ohio Valley. The Americans also hoped to take over Canada and drive the British from the North American Continent (de Mesquita and Smith 2016). History has shown us that the more dead soldiers there are in a war, the greater the esteem the president is held in the hindsight of history. So fighting wars has been good for presidents (de Mesquita and Smith 2016).

However, like other nations, the United States entered most, if not all, of her wars by manipulation. Some of the presidents who have entered the United States into wars by manipulation included Polk, Lincoln, McKinley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson, Bush Sr., and Bush. Then there were numerous military interventions. Many historians have reserved moral judgment on whether or not these presidents who manipulated the United States into war did the right or wrong thing. Some think that they did the right thing. We leave it up to the reader to make a moral judgement.

Preface

If any question why we died, tell them because our fathers lied .

Rudyard Kipling, 1922

Isolation is much less dangerous than the danger of being dragged into wars, which do not concern us.

Lord Salisbury, 1896

Almost all things have been found out, but some have been forgotten.

Aristotle

M uch about war has been forgotten. In 1935, retired General Smedley Butler published a small book entitled War Is a Racket. The original book was only about twenty pages and can still be obtained today. The 2013 edition is 208 pages. Probably only a small percentage of the population have read the book. However, it apparently remains popular among a few people, at least enough to keep it in print.

General Butlers book covers many wars and military interventions that he was involved in: in Asia, Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, as well as World War I. General Butler came to believe that war was a racket, which the government in Washington, DC, frequently engaged in for the profit and power for themselves and various business interests of the United States (Butler 1935).

Following along the lines of General Butler, I am calling this War Is a Racket II . It is about the wars and military interventions that the United States has gotten involved in during its history. There are too many military interventions to cover them all. To find further information on the various wars and interventions, refer to the sources listed herein. This book is meant to be brief and does not cover every detail.

Which policy is the most destructive for the United States, the interventionist or the non-interventionist? The non-interventionist rarely succeeds in the debates, so I argue that they have caused no apparent damage to the United States or the rest of the world. The interventionist would probably argue that if the non-interventionist had succeeded in the debates, the United States would be overrun with Nazis, Communists, Terrorists, or various other evil doers. So what have the interventionists accomplished? They have gotten a large number of American military personnel killed or crippled and, of course, caused a large amount of damage to other countries and their people. Furthermore, these conflicts frequently lead to more conflicts.

Prior to World War II, the propaganda ministers in the Roosevelt Administration called the non-interventionists, isolationists. They were also called Nazi sympathizers or Nazi Fellow travelers. This propaganda worked well for the Roosevelt Administration. Even recently, during the Iraq war, President George W. Bush used the word isolationist to demonize the opposition to his Iraq blunder. To label the people who are reluctant to intervene in various conflicts as isolationists is not accurate, but it seems to work well with Congress and most of the public. These so-called isolationists do not want to isolate the United States from the world. They only wish the United States would be not be drawn into various military interventions and wars that they believe do not really concern America. So far the interventionists have not rid the world of evil, made the world safe for democracy, and fought a war to end all wars or rid the world of terrorists. In fact, the terrorists seem to have increased in numbers as America wages war on terrorists.

There is, of course, a time for war and a time for peace. Congresses and the presidents, however, do not seem to know the difference. Digging below the surface of most of the American history of wars and interventions clearly shows that Americas history of going to war and intervening militarily is mostly folly. As Senator Hiram W. Johnson said, Truth is the first casualty of war.

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America warned future generations not to get involved in entangling alliances and not to go to foreign countries in search of monsters. America did not listen well. Presently, the United States has between seven hundred to a thousand foreign military bases and in 2008, a military presence in 151 of 192 United Nations member states, as noted by Chalmers Johnson (Johnson 2007). He noted further:

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