To eliminate the problem, the sale or movement of arms and aid, excepting food or medical supplies, to all countries should be terminated by a congressional act or constitutional amendment. Countries and governments that engage in the arms business are usually only interested in political expediency through weapons or profits, in neither case, the carnage and destruction they facilitate.
We have a long history of interfering in the politics of other countries and introducing arms (muzzle-first or in crates) to one side or another with devastating results, both to the members of our armed services, their families and to millions of innocent victims of those other countries.[2] It is time to get out of a business that is defined by death, destruction and debt. As a by-product of getting out of the arms and war business, the greatest and most sustainable health-care program, tax-reduction plan and stimulus package ever devised could be implemented at zero cost to the American public.
Endnotes:
[1] George Washington's farewell speech, Sept 17, 1796. (overgrown military establishment, #13; foreign alliances, # 40)
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