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Next to Gandhi and Martin Luther King, this US general is one of my greatest heroes. He said in 1933:
 
"WAR is a racket. It always has been.  It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious…. "
 
"A racket is best described … as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the 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 very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes…. "
 

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