What does it Profit?

Yes, they are getting ready for another war. Why shouldn't they? It pays high dividends.
But what does it profit the masses?
What does it profit the men who are killed? What does it profit the men who are maimed? What does it profit their mothers and sisters, their wives and their sweethearts? What does it profit their children?
What does it profit anyone except the very few to whom war means huge profits?

Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler (1935, War is a Racket)
"Old Gimlet Eye" was the most decorated Marine at the time of his death in 1940