Dealing in Death
There is nothing like invading a country and spending a trillion dollars and thousands of lives to remove a dictator. But it does not end there! Now we can sell them billions of dollars of weapons.
This article spells it out.
From the article:
Among the big-ticket items being sold to Iraq are F-16 fighter jets, M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks, cannons and armored personnel carriers. The Iraqis have also received body armor, helmets, ammunition trailers and sport utility vehicles, which critics say can be used by domestic security services to help Mr. Maliki consolidate power.
Yes, war is big business and you always need a steady stream of killing machines. Ya gotta hand it to mankind. We have figured out how to make a profit from war. And in a stunning display of ingenuity we can even sell weapons to the country we invaded not long ago. And just to jog your memory, who was it that sold weapons and weapons technology to Saddam Hussein? Yep, it was America!
The circle of death continues!
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Rick,
I have a serious and sincere question. I've been thinking of this for a long time and last night finally framed it this way.
Remember when Wm. Wilburforce was fighting to end slavery in England?
And there was a group of people who boycotted sugar because they said that there was too much "blood" in it?
Today, as citizens of the U.S., how do we avoid living with blood on our hands?
We are not to fight against flesh and blood. We are to love our enemies and pray for them. But how do we get thru our days without blood on our hands?
We cannot boycott oil. It's impossible.
Even if we gave away our vehicles and rode bicycles there is oil in the manufacture and maintenance of bicycles. In our electricity is oil. No lights, electric ovens, refrigerators, computers...
In almost every single thing we buy is oil -the plastic, the manufacture,the transportation.
How do we go about not participating in the killing?
Have you ever thought this way?
A little while ago I came across a bit of video showing a couple of little Libyan girls who'd been horribly maimed by our bombs. One had a chunk our of her leg but she was apparently in shock because she was just quietly staring at the other little girl who couldn't stop screaming because she'd had her lower jaw shot off. How can we, as citizens of this country, not take part in and truly distance ourselves from what America does? Is our whole lifestyle drenched in blood and we don't even see it?
Thank you, Lisa
Lisa - As always you have addressed a profound issue. I cannot answer it in a comment so later today or tomorrow I will print your comment and address it in a post. Suffice to say not many believers even give these things a second thought.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Rick.
Bless you.
Lisa
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