NaDavid Swanson, September 13, 2019
Ini ndanga ndisingazive kusvika nguva pfupi yadarika kuti Smedley Butler anga akamboenda kuguta rangu. Ipapo ndakazonzwa kuti ataura paYunivhesiti yeVirginia pano muCarlottesville mu1937. Yunivhesiti yeVirginia yaive nematauro akakamira mumatumbu ayo uye aive nemutsa wakaringana kuchera. Yakaomeswa pazasi.
Kana usati wanzwa nezveSmedley Butler uye usingazive chikonzero nei ari gamba rakakura kuvaVeterans for Peace and Peace advocates in general (pamwe nekuve anga ari Major General), ndinogona kuedza kupfupisa hupenyu hwake hunoshamisa mune mashoma mitsara. Iye murume anofanirwa kuve gamba kune vanopikisana nemafashoni emafashoni, ayo, nenzira, asvikawo kuCharlottesville.
Smedley Butler aive mutendi chaiye mune zvese zvinamato uye zvehondo hogwash. Akanyepa nezvezera rake kuti ajoina ma Marines kutanga. Akazvisiyanisa neashinga uye neunyanzvi hutungamiri muhondo muChina neLatin America. Akatonga Haiti. Aive gamba reHondo yeNyika I. Akaiswa mutariri wekurambidzwa muPhiladelphia kusvikira asimbisa mutemo unorwisa vapfumi. Iye akange ari Marineti akashongedzwa zvakanyanya kuve ariko uye anoramba ari mumwe weakarongedzwa zvikuru mauto eU.S. Akamhanya pachigadziko kuQuantico uye iye amene akasungwa mukati maro sechirango chekuita pachena kuti US-ally Benito Mussolini akamhanya pamusoro pemusikana mudiki nemota yake.
Butler aive anodiwa gamba revavaridzi uye mutungamiri wekutambudzika kwavo kubhadhariswa mabhonasi avo pakati pezvimwe zvinodiwa. Chikwata chevamwe vevakapfuma kwazvo murudzi vakaita ongororo yekufambiswa kwemafambiro muEurope uye vakaedza kuhaya Butler kuti atungamire mubatanidzwa naPresident Franklin Roosevelt. Butler akafumura urongwa uhu, uye kunzwiwa kweKutonga kwakaratidza kuzarurirwa kwake. Vanyori venhoroondo vanotenda kuti pasina kuramba kwaButler, zano iri rinogona kunge rakatakurwa kuburikidza.
Butler akashora kurwa muhurukuro dzeruzhinji dzisingaverengeke uye akaramba basa rake rekare senge rechikwama raibata rufu mukushandira Wall Street. Iye aive achidisisa uye akazvipira uye asingatyi mukushora kwake kuurayiwa kwevanhu vazhinji sezvo kwaakange ave mukutsigira kwake. Seuchapupu hweizvozvo, ndinopa kutaura kunotevera, pabepa raButler aine typed nemaoko-akanyorwa edits:
Panguva ino, vemauto eUS vaikurumidza kugadzirira kurwa neJapan, uye mapoka erunyararo aive akabata kuratidzira kurwa neJapan - hondo isina kuuya kuzosvikira 1941.
Verenga mubvunzo uyu wekupedzisira zvakare. Mu1937, iri raive rhetorical mubvunzo. Mhinduro yacho yaive pachena. Munyika yePashure meHondo yechipiri yenyika yehondo isingagumi, mhinduro yacho haina kujeka uye yakatonyanya kutsanangurwa. Vezvematongerwo enyika vanoitwa vachiratidzira kuti “nekunakidzwa” sekushungurudzwa, kana zvisiri izvo zvakanyanya.
Propaganda yakagara iripo kubvira kare yakaratidza kuti kunamatira kune rako bhizinesi "kuzvitsaura", kunyangwe hazvo Butler, sevanhu vazhinji “vanozviparadzanisa nevamwe” anojekesa kwazvo mune rinotevera mweya kuti haasi kutaura nezvekusarasa munhu.
Panguva yekutaura iyi, iyo Ludlow Amendment yakanga ichiwana simba muCongress. Izvo zvaizoda vhoti yeruzhinji pamberi pehondo dzese. Mutungamiri Roosevelt vakabudirira kuvhara ndima yayo.
Chimwe chikonzero Smedley Butler akarasika kune nhoroondo ndeyekuti vezvemakambani venhau uye vanyori venhoroondo vakaita kuedza kukuru kudzima uye kuvanza nyaya yeiyo Wall Street Plot. Ini ndinofungidzira kuti chimwe chikonzero ndechekuti Butler akapokana nehondo pamberi pehondo dzoutsvene muU.S. tsika, Hondo Yenyika II. Nechikonzero ichocho, ini ndinopa pano sumo yekudzokorodza kutarisisa kweiyo ngano:
