We Arm the World
In 2007, U.S. foreign military sales agreements totaled more than $32 billion — nearly triple the amount during President Bush’s first full year in office.
The Pentagon routinely justifies weapons sales as “promoting regional stability,” but many of these arms end up in the world’s war zones. In 2006 and 2007, the five biggest recipients of U.S. weapons were Pakistan ($3.5 billion), Iraq ($2.2 billion), Israel ($2.2 billion), Afghanistan ...
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When the majority of our tax revenue scaffolds the military industrial complex which imposes certain global geopolitical visions, it is fruitless to question other political groups' motives for wanting to have their own control over the earth's resources.