Holy Crap.. Pun intended...

Eric, are you off your fooking rocker. Money is not and will never be, the number one cause of war. If that's what your dad the history professor is teaching his students, we are all in big trouble.

The number one thing that causes a war will always be, US vs. THEM. It doesn't matter what the US is or the THEM is but it's certainley not, first and foremost, moniterily driven...
Unless of course the "US" is, we are poor and the "THEM" is, they are rich.

Or it's the We have this land and they have that land. Now you can say, HEY, THAT'S MONEY !!.. But as usual, you would be wrong.
The longest major, ongoing coflict in the middle east is the battle fro Jerusalem, Sinai, not because of it's financial significane, but because of it's religious significane. If the wars were purley monitary, the Palestanians would be fighting over the oil fields, not over the right of the Jewish, Israeli state to exist.

Vietnam was not a war over money. It was a war over ideology. Communism over Democracy, US vs. THEM. Even wars within religions, the suni's and the shiate's, US vs. THEM.
Apartheid = Race wars, US vs. THEM. WWII was Aryan vs. Everyone else, US vs. Them.
Countries don't go to war for money, countries go to war to protect or spread their IDEOLOGY. Which is a much greater reason that, to make a buck.

RELIGION has always been and will always be, THE NUMBER ONE CAUSE OF WAR. And any effort for you to spin it anyother way is just plain old STUPID.

Yes, there will always be war profiteers, but that is not and never has been the reason for war.

Where did you get your education? The hair and make-up academy?

B

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