Yes 100%. All of the wars with an invisible enemy revolve around $ and control. The war on drugs didn't do anything to actually fight the importation of drugs into the US, our government just eliminated completion and then took over the drug trade. Look into the CIA running cocaine in the 80s and 90s.
Prohibition (war on alcohol). Same thing. People were making it and selling it all around the nation under the table. Huge amount of tax $ were missed until they finally brought it back 'legally'...
War on terror? That just ended up being who could control the terror. The US funded all of it. One you we are arming 'allies and insurgents' then next we are fighting them. Who originally funded Isis?
The only reason Prohibition was finally instituted was they found a way to replace the taxes on alcohol that the Federal government ran on - watch Ken Burns' documentary on it, it's a well researched, even handed look at the whole history of Prohibition. There was a serious problem with alcohol in the US, because the Fed looked away at abuses of alcohol sales and it's impact on society, because most of the money they ran Washington on was from booze.
Yes 100%. All of the wars with an invisible enemy revolve around $ and control. The war on drugs didn't do anything to actually fight the importation of drugs into the US, our government just eliminated completion and then took over the drug trade. Look into the CIA running cocaine in the 80s and 90s.
Prohibition (war on alcohol). Same thing. People were making it and selling it all around the nation under the table. Huge amount of tax $ were missed until they finally brought it back 'legally'...
War on terror? That just ended up being who could control the terror. The US funded all of it. One you we are arming 'allies and insurgents' then next we are fighting them. Who originally funded Isis?
The only reason Prohibition was finally instituted was they found a way to replace the taxes on alcohol that the Federal government ran on - watch Ken Burns' documentary on it, it's a well researched, even handed look at the whole history of Prohibition. There was a serious problem with alcohol in the US, because the Fed looked away at abuses of alcohol sales and it's impact on society, because most of the money they ran Washington on was from booze.
The thing that changed it? Income tax.
It ended once McShame died. He was the conduit for whoever made money off of ISIS