From your comment, one can only guess you may not appear value learning or history. I hope that's not the case.

Smedley Butler, while the recipient of 2 Medals of Honor, became exhausted by being used as a tool to kill and oppress people in other countries on behalf of US foreign policy that largely consisted of the interests of US companies. (Monroe doctrine, colonialism, etc.)

"Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors . . ."