Originally posted by Conspiracy Theorist
I think its shocking that we (the West) can spend billions on war, but we allow this to happen to more than 26 million people.
How do we justify this?
We don't. We ignore it until we can ignore it no longer, then we throw money at it. Over and over and over again. Why are resources going into
anything else at all while people are without reliable food, water and shelter? Because from top to bottom the system is corrupt.
We, here on ATS, know better than most what war is really about. It has nothing to do with patriotism and protecting our way of life, the brave men
and women who fight in wars are not doing it for their country they are private armies representing corporate interests. The motives and media
defined motivations, for war have not changed much since the 12th century crusades.
Since the second world war, wars have been fought not on the battlefield but in the towns, cities and villages of our so-called enemies. We have
helped to fund civil wars and uprisings, and installed puppet regimes in the aftermath of coups. In the long and the short of it, we in the west, our
governments and the corporations that fund them, are responsible for much of the misery that exists in the world today. Every day hundreds die as a
direct and indirect result of UK or US policy. They are nothing more than collateral damage and the more that die or disappear, the less compensation
that will be eventually be required.
At the Nuremberg Trials, the head of the US Prosecution, Robert Jackson fought to have the charge of Waging Aggressive War made against the Nazi
heirarchy. On this charge men were hung. Since that time the US has waged agressive war repeatedly. The UK too, but the British team were opposed
to the charge, so we just about escape the charge of hypocrisy. Why have the international courts failed to respond to this? Why do the rules of law
only ever apply to the vanquished?
The people of Iraq will be beaten down until they have no resistance left and then they will be provided with a suitable leader, a corporate darling,
someone the boys can do business with. Much money will then be invested into Iraq to rebuild the economy and the infrastructure. As at every stage
of this programme corruption pervades, it will remain to be seen for how long stability is maintained - this time. And so it goes.
Any country that has a resource of any value, that is not already strongly controlled by corporate interests is a viable target. In areas of Africa,
where the mineral resources are rich, civil unrest prevents these resources from reaching the marketplace. By limiting supply to a level below
demand, they keep the price high. It all works in their favour.
The west will not involve itself in the resolution of these disputes until they require those resources to enter the market or until they own those
resources and can therefore fix prices. They will of course intercede if those conflicts look likely to be resolved, they will provide weapons and
expertise if necessary to keep the natives restive.
It is all a little jaded and sadly no foreseeable conclusion is in sight, not while our governments operate outside of our jurisdiction and we, as the
electorate, allow them to. All the while people like us, who once had hopes and aspirations not too different from our own, are without the provision
of basic needs. Through no fault of their own their lives and homes were taken from them. While the corporations report fat profits, it is us that
will dig in our pockets to help those people, because 'there but for the grace of god go I.'
