War is a Racket II: How the United States Government manipulates the country into unnecessary wars and military interventions.
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This is not an anti-war book. Rather, the book is about the bad behavior of the US government in Washington, DC, in taking the country into military adventures when it is not necessary. To state that the country should never go to war would be irresponsible. Wars cannot always be avoided. A characteristic of the United States foreign policy establishment is their refusal to admit they made a mistake. There are never any consequences for invading the wrong country. The establishment carries on as if everything is okay, and they quickly forget about the dead and crippled. Currently, the US has approximately 800 bases in seventy countries. As of November 2016, the US was dropping bombs on seven different countries. This book does not favor either political party. However, some may disagree. In 1935, retired General Smedley Butler published a small book entitled War Is a Racket, which explained how and why the US Government manipulates the country into various wars and military interventions for power and their own selfish interest. This is an update on General Butler's 1935 book. Most of us have heard or read the following words many times. We are forced to go to war or do a military intervention to save our liberty and freedom, to make the world safe for democracy, a war to end all wars, to save the world from communist or whatever, to protect American lives, to save the world from a country that might possess weapons of mass destruction, etc. This is a book explaining how the United States government manipulated and lied its way into a number of wars and military interventions. This information will not normally be taught in your school history class or viewed on your history channel. This is not conspiracy theory stuff. You can look it all up. This information is available to all citizens if they care to research it. Some of this information may shock you.
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War is a Racket II - Robert F. Boland
The Mexican-American War of 1847
Historians generally blame President Polk for manipulating the United States into the Mexican-American War of 1847. There is little doubt that President Polk wanted this war. Mexico, however, apparently wanted this war equally as bad and started the war. The cause of the war was over the United States’ annexation of the Republic of Texas, which declared its independence in 1845. Mexico did not recognize the Republic of Texas and demanded that Texas be returned to Mexico. As Texas agreed to be annexed to the United States, Mexico warned the US that there would be war if the US annexed Texas (Morris 1982). There was also a border dispute between Mexico and Texas, and this included the United States because the US had since annexed Texas. Texas claimed the border was the Rio Grande River. Mexico claimed that the border was the Nueces River, which was about 150 miles north of the Rio