(07-19-2014 02:31 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(06-10-2014 12:57 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(06-10-2014 11:39 AM)bitcruncher Wrote:  And the mistakes made at the end of WWI led directly to WWII, Korea, Vietnam, today's unrest in the Middle East, etc.

That's because it is not corporately profitable to prosecute a war to its natural conclusion. In the history of mankind nothing other than perhaps medicine has been as profitable as the business of war materials. Everyone feels they need them, that they need to practice with them, that they need to stockpile them, and that they must have the latest innovations. And nothing creates a larger demand than the destruction of war materials in a war. Consequently politicians who are paid by corporations to look after their interests always make sure to leave the seeds of the next conflict in place at the conclusion of the current conflict. The Treaty of Versailles created the reparations that made Germany destitute and led to ultimately to National Socialism and WWII. The Divisions of Post WWII Europe, particularly Germany, led to the Cold War. The parsing of Korea, the Kamchatka peninsula, and the Kuril Islands done to appease the Soviets after 1 week of involvement against Japan led to Korea and Vietnam. The ramifications of the Cold War led to the Bay of Pigs and eventually Granada, Nicaragua and Panama. And the partition of Palestine at the end of WWII has led to the rest.

It is so much in fact that even Eisenhower proclaimed that his greatest fear for the future of the United States was the rise of our own military industrial complex of which many of the components comprise a significant proportion of the Federal Reserve and their influence there has led to the ballooning of the national debt from 205 million in 1963 to an annual interest payment on the principal of the debt in excess of 19 trillion today, a debt so large that it alone poses a greater threat to the destruction of our way of life than any foreign adversary.

What you are talking about is what prompted the writing of "War is a racket" by Smedley Butler....the most decorated Marine in US history at the time of his death.

Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler wrote "War Is A Racket" as a response to Republicans who offered him command of the U.S. Army, hoping to use him to overthrow the federal government in their attempt to stop the New Deal.

But he was the most heavily decorated man of any military service. He joined the Marines at age 16, lying about his age in order to join, and began his career as a private, He then rose through the enlisted ranks, before becoming an officer and reaching the highest rank the Marines can bestow. He is also a double Congressional Medal of Honor winner, one of only 19 such persons in the 250 year history of the nation.
NOTE: There have been no double Congressional Medal of Honor winners since WWI.