smedley butler

• tam adi, smedley d. butler. unvaniyla birlikte, "major general smedley butler".
  efsanevi bir amerikan generali.
  
  efsanevi dememin sebebi, askeri basarilari, cifte cesaret madalyalari falan degil, askeri kariyerinin sonunda, sivil hayata gecis yaptiktan sonra bir aydinlanma yasayip/ya da daha fazla icimde tutamayacagim diyerek aciyor agzini yumuyor gozunu.
  
  ve bize kisa ama cok oz sahane bir eser birakiyor.
  
  war is a racket adli kisa kitabi herkes tarafindan okunmali.
  
  pdf ve sesli kitap linki yukaridaki war is a racket linkinde.
• “war is just a racket. a racket is best described, i believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. only a small inside group knows what it is about. it is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.”
  
  “i believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. if a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. the trouble with america is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.”
  
  “i wouldn’t go to war again as i have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. there are only two things we should fight for. one is the defense of our homes and the other is the bill of rights. war for any other reason is simply a racket. there isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. it has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “big boss” super-nationalistic-capitalism.”
  
  “i suspected i was just part of a racket at the time. now i am sure of it. like all the members of the military profession, i never had a thought of my own until i left the service. my mental faculties remained in suspended animation while i obeyed the orders of higher-ups. this is typical with everyone in the military service.”
  
  “i helped make mexico, especially tampico, safe for american oil interests in 1914. i helped make haiti and cuba a decent place for the national city bank boys to collect revenues in. i helped in the raping of half a dozen central american republics for the benefits of wall street. the record of racketeering is long. i helped purify nicaragua for the international banking house of brown brothers in 1909-1912 (where have i heard that name before?). i brought light to the dominican republic for american sugar interests in 1916. in china i helped to see to it that standard oil went its way unmolested. during those years, i had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. looking back on it, i feel that i could have given al capone a few hints. the best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. i operated on three continents.”
  — smedley butler on interventionism
  (excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by major general smedley butler, usmc.)
• şöhretli bir abd'li general. kendisine 1934 yılında bir grup politikacı ve iş adamı tarafından faşist darbe yapması teklif edilmiştir. darbenin finans ve ordu ihtiyacı bu çevre tarafından karşılanacaktı.
• "bu ülkenin [abd] en başarılı kuvvetinde, deniz piyade sınıfında asker olarak 33 yıl, 4 ay geçirdim. asteğmenlikten tümgeneralliğe, hiyerarşinin tüm basamaklarında bulundum. bütün bu süre boyunca, çoğu zaman büyük işadamları, wall street ve bankerler hesabına, kısacası kapitalizmin hizmetinde kiralık katillik yaptım. örneğin 1914'te, meksika'nın, özellikle tampico'nun, abd petrolcülerinin çıkarlarına kurban edilmesine yardım ettim. haiti ve küba'nın, national city bank'ın faizini kolayca toplayabileceği yerler olmasına yardım ettim. 1909-1912 arasında, nikaragua'nın tasfiyesinde uluslararası brown brothers bankasına yardım ettim. 1916'da abd şeker endüstrisinin çıkarlarını korumak için dominik cumhuriyeti'ni işgal ettim. 1903'te, abd meyve şirketleri yararına honduras'ın sindirilmesine yardım ettim." (smedley d. butler)