To stop war, I think we will have to take the profits out of it...modern warfare is very profitable.

It seems to me we have grown distressingly used to war... War and the military have become a part of our environment, like pollution.

Violence is our most important product. We have been spending nearly $80 billion a year on the military, which is more than the profits of all American business, or, to make another comparison, is almost as much as the total spending of the federal, state, and local governments for health, education, old age and retirement benefits, housing, and agriculture. By Sen J. William Fulbright Pentagon Propaganda Machine (p11).