"OUR FOREIGN POLICY has always been geared towards gathering as much of the world's resources unto ourselves at the expense of others....the True purpose of our armed forces is to make the world safe for our Big Boss: our Supernationalistic Capitalism and our Cultural and economic assault..the trouble with US Americans is: if our Dollar can't buy more than 6% of its value at home....we get uneasy...and we go abroad so it can buy 100 percent more...and where the Dollar goes, our flag, follows, where the Flag goes, our army goes."

General Smedley Butler, US Marines, 1933.