War is a racket - Corporations, Fascism & Major General Smedley D. Butler

[dingodan]

Go on then [MENTION=18559]dingodan[/MENTION]...the point is?

That would certainly be easier than thinking wouldn't it.

 

[dingodan]

I responded with no point having actually been made by you in your opening post!? All you did was a copy and paste job on some US army general who made some comments in the 1930s and as far as I can tell the only point you made was that it was interesting, a word you used 3 times and the only real comment you made. A post like that is clearly going to spark some debate and opinion hence why people have posted their opinions, something you clearly dislike as it doesn't correspond with your own opinion whatever that is since you have yet to expand on that or make your point. And you exhibit exactly the same prejudice and reactive comments in your own posts that you are accusing me of so please make your point which you omitted to do so in your original post so we can all understand exactly what it is you are trying to get across here.

So in short yes it is interesting to a degree and yes I responded without understanding the point since one was not made. Stop trying so hard to be such a smartarse and actually try and make a comment worth reading.

I am actually not really trying to make a point. The statement from Smedley Butler, and the video I posted do make a point, but I posted this to make people think rather than to make a point myself.

Draw whatever conclusions you want from what I posted, I only responded the way I did to what you said because it seemed that you had decided what you thought before reading/watching and thinking about the post, which is kind of annoying.

Anyway, let's not fight.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

That would certainly be easier than thinking wouldn't it.

Why do I need to have an opinion when I have you to have them for me?

It would certainly be easier to post random YouTube clips and title them as " interesting" when, clearly, they are just the naive mutterings of a pre war American military type who had barely uttered them when history showed them to be a gross oversimplification at best and an appeasers charter at worst.

Appeasement, clearly, was a huge mistake. Only six years after Smedley said these things it led to war on a global scale. America was literally caught with its pants down by the imperialistic Japanese while too many of them were fretting about people like your Smedley characters opinions.

Like Churchill said of Chamberlain..." you had a choice between dishonour and war. You chose dishonour. You will have war."