General Smedley Butler on War

Seventy years ago, General Smedley Butler, twice a Congressional Medal of Honor winner, had this commentary on war: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html. His observations and views may be even more true today, except the numbers are much larger. In the spirit of his recommendations, I propose the following policy directions to the Democrats; there's no point in suggesting such a course of action to Republicans. This is not neo-isolationalist because none of this envisions withdrawing commercially or diplomatically.
1. Redeploy all American servicemen back to American soil with all due haste. Whether or not this would result in a reduction in forces, there are training needs and some missions available here within our borders. Some might think they could assist with securing our borders. Maybe not a good idea, but certainly they could march in parades.
2. Require the Navy to patrol no more than 300 miles off the coast of American territory.
3. Require that the Air Force patrol no more that 500 miles from American territory.
4. Outlaw all covert actions against other nations. Whether it has had to do with assassinations in Vietnam, the Allende interference, clandestine activity in Nicaragua and Guatemala, or the comical attempts to assassinate Castro, I can think of no clandestine operation of the CIA or any other of our "intelligence" establishments that has redounded to the interests of the United States.
5. Make it illegal to sell or give arms, munitions, and military technology to other nations. Certainly many people have died all over this globe at the hands of people using arms bought from United States arms dealers. Surely our commercial interest in selling weaponry has done more to destabilize than to stabilize, more for tyranny than for freedom, more for murder than for Justice. Can you say Darfor?

General Butler makes very cogent points about the "military-industrial complex," Ike's term actually. Shifting from a death-focused capitalism to one focused on our sustainable husbandry of this small planet cannot be easy or simple, but is becoming more and more necessary.