War is a racket On 2015-11-04 By galacticwanderlustIn Culture HIS HOLINESS, THE DALAI LAMA 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. -Gen. Smedley Butler, War is a Racket, 1935 Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading...