This article was originally published in The Gazette out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa on September 1, 1939, the day Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Major General Smedley Butler spent 34 years in the U.S. Marines where he participated in fighting in China, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti, the Philippines, and France. He is one of only nineteen men to win the Medal of Honor twice. In 1935 he published the book War Is a Racket. This was one of his final op-eds before his death on June 21, 1940. When any given European war ends, what does Europe do? She starts to breed another generation of soldiers. So,...