Across Frontiers - Spring 2004

Weapon Industry - Charles Mercieca Ph.D.


Making Money as Main Objective

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If we were to study the tactics of the weapons industrial complex since World War II ended 1945, we will discover something curious which happened with regularity and with no virtual exception. This demonic industry had always agents who went from one global area to another for purpose of creating civil strives within the same nation and/or with neighboring countries. The goal was always the same, namely, to install fear in each fraction or group and then to offer each one of these fractions or groups all the weapons needed to “defend themselves” from possible attack by the enemy.

What is outrageous lies there. The weapons industry sells weapons to anyone that gives the right price, friends and enemies alike. Such an industry, as stated earlier, does not care about the safeguard and sacredness of human life. Yet, the people of the nations where weapons are manufactured and sold, above all the United States, cannot see how they themselves became victims of brainwashing and indoctrination that is sponsored, very often,by the government itself. We need here to raise a serious question: How is it that the nations of the world, which manufacture and sell weapons, claim to believe that the military is the only effective means available to solve all the problems of the world?

As we know from the history, the military may be described as a brutal organization, which is licenced by legitimate governments to massacre people indiscriminately without any investigation or trial. The policy of the military is not conversation or dialogue to come to solutions based on mutual interests. Its policy is violence, which explains why all soldiers are equipped with weapons of destruction and not with books of learning, with food to feed the hungry they encounter, and with medicine to cure the sick.

This is the real picture of the military, even though the government tries to hide this reality by presenting the military to the general public performing marches with flags while trying, at the same time, to entertain people by playing the band. We are all familiar nowadays with how the United States reacted to the act of terrorism in New York and Wahington, DC on September 11, 2001. It did not consult any of its thousands of civic, educational and religious organizations.

GROUNDWORK OF FUTURE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

The United States responded by committing a similar act of terrorism in Afghanistan, under the guide that the USA and the world were after to get one man known as Osama Bin Laden, who was presumed to be directing these acts of terror. Thousands of innocent people died in New York and in Washington, DC and thousands of innocent people equally died inAfghanistan. This was putting into operation the “eye for an eye and the thooth for a tooth” philosophy we find in the Old Testament. Ironically, the USA is a predominantly Christian nation whose Master Teacher, Jesus of Nazareth, viewed this kind of philosophy as vicious and evil.

After the United States devasted Afghanistan with bombardments and destroyed virtually its entire infrastructure system, instead of deciding with most of its self-proclaimed allies to rebuild a demilitarized nation, it has set a priority the creation of an Afghanistan army that will include 60,000 soldiers, 8,000 strong air force and 70,000 personnel in para-military role. The present government in Afghanistan has already earmarked $235 million dollars for military spending in 2002 alone. Thus, the United States is letting the groundwork for a future Mobutu of the former Zaire, a future Pinochet of Chile, a future Suharto of Indonesia, a future Abacha of Nigeria, a future Mao of China, a future Stalin of Russia, a future Hitler of Germany, among numerous other brutal dictators. The question that needs to be raised here is this: Why does the USA contribute systematically toward the creation of dictatorial regimes that prove afterwards to be so brutal and merciless?

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