Where Have You Gone, Smedley Butler?
(WorldNews Mexico)

This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. There once lived an odd little man — five feet nine inches tall and barely 140 pounds sopping wet — who rocked the lecture circuit and the nation itself. For all but a few activist insiders and scholars, U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Darlington Butler is now lost to history. Yet more than a century ago, this strange contradiction of a man would become a national war hero, celebrated in pulp adventure novels, and then, 30 years later, as one of this country´s most prominent antiwar and anti-imperialist dissidents. Raised in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and educated in Quaker (pacifist) schools, the son of an influential...