Originally posted by travlin'easy:
I was never a big fan of JFK, however he put it best when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you--Ask what you can do for your country!" Food for thought.
Gary 
1st-century B.C. Roman statesman and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once declared, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country."
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The sinews of war: unlimited money.
Cicero, 1st century BC
Peace just doesn't pay that well. Figures...
WAR IS A RACKET
WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, 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.
...read the entire article:
http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm ------------------
Bo pen nyang.