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Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by rufus_foreman on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:37PM (#36077295)
>> It's too abstract and sounds like a phrase your tinfoil-hat wearing conspiracy-theorist uncle would rant about

That's why it was so important that it come from someone like a 5 star general and Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II. No one was going to mistake Eisenhower for a tinfoil-hat wearer, a pacifist, or an appeaser.

Re:War Is a Racket (1935) by jnsie on Thursday May 25, 2023 @09:55PM (#36078828)
While I completely agree I'm not sure how well known its origins are today, or will be in the future.