War diamonds kill people, how about weapons?
What’s wrong with all the pretty little diamonds that women all over the world love so much? The “humanitarians” are claiming that some of those diamonds are used to fund civil wars and rebellions in Africa, but ironically none of them mention that weapons are more directly used to kill people during those conflicts. After all, diamonds don’t really kill people, they create jobs and they are very useful in some industries.
So, based on these humanitarians’ logics, the civilians should take the responsibility of avoiding to indirectly funding civil wars, however, the weapon manufacturers have all the rights to cash on their record profits year after year, of course! Based on some publicly released information, the weapon industry’s profits at US is just a bit less than the oil industry. We can safely assume the weapons they produce are not for helping people around the world, neither for protecting people, nor for killing the bad guys. Statistically speaking, I think very few bad guys are actually shot by bullets, they’re so well protected by our legal system and international court that they can only die after a triumphing trial, nothing less; and sometime they seem to live forever or die happily on their own (Pol Pot, Milosevic, Pinochet, etc), while the good people would die cruelly under the bad guys’ weapons. And what do the diamonds have to do in all these? Nothing!
So if anybody sincerely wants to stop civil war and genocide, they should shutdown the weapon industry rather than making the consumers feel guilty for buying war diamonds. Otherwise anything else they say is just bullshit and absolute hypocrisy! There are many reasons that diamonds are good, but there is not a single reason that an AK-47 could be good for humanity, unless someone can give me one.
The US is not the only to be blamed here, Russia is as guilty, so does UK, France and China, but at least Chinese government don’t travel around the world spitting at others for funding warlords at Africa, they look at it as any other businesses. Meanwhile, the American government won’t skip a single opportunity to bash on Chinese government for doing business with “evil regimes” at Africa while at the same time they would happily accept cash (US$ please) or gold as payment for the next weapon shipment to the very same regimes they’re condemning! Or let’s just pretend that we forgot to count the total arms shipped to Iraq and let them run loose on the street, ultimately someone will use them to kill someone else, and the later will have the need to buy a bigger weapon to revenge, and there goes the strategy of creating a market out of none.
And this is from the new big brother that is supposed to look over world peace and democracy and freedom… Fortunately they won’t have enough money to do the job for long. Everyday there are people claiming for more affordable health care and better education, without any concrete act from the government. But when they need money to build a weapon industrial complex around the Pentagon, money is always abundant. I wonder if I should feel more secure today, or scare…
