, normal people who are capable... one of my favorite characters in american history, general smedley buttlern his book war is a racket, why this war will not end with them , only we can end this war, when we decide so, then our goals will be achieved to the extent that we decide is satisfactory for ourselves, this naive thing that i listen to regularly from various friends, as is customary in the american army, i i wasn’t supposed to think, i didn’t think, i followed orders, and now i left the army and realized that i never defended any interests of my country, i defended the interests of fat cats, i defended other people’s money, i was a racketeer and a gangster, i alcapone could learn from me, because alcopone controlled three unfortunate regions, and i rocketed in three unfortunate regions, and i rocketed on three continents. he ran away from home to join the army at age 17 when the spanish-american war began in 1898 against his father's wishes, although his father was a military man, they in general, from a quaker family, this is such an old, old aristocratic america that came from the f