Perhaps the Most Important Words Ever Written About War...

This isn’t satire:

Who, you might ask, would say such a thing? A bitter old Mennonite pastor? Some crazy pacifist hippie? Some millennial in his parent’s basement solving all the world’s problems with a few simple hashtags?

Actually, these are the words of someone who knows a thing or two about war from personal experience: Major General Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.

In 1935 he wrote a searingly accurate essay War is a Racket, in which he admitted,

When the rest of us will realize it, I have no idea.

Perhaps reading Butler’s essay will help.