Where the peace movement should focus a large share of its attention is upon the weapons manufacturers in their own nations and in creating weapons embargoes on countries like NK.Funny you should mention it. In a documentary a couple of days ago something was mentioned about how the US might have been instrumental in keeping Saddam in power. It was speculated that perhaps the US needed a big middle east boogy man in order to sell billions worth of weapons to Iraq's scared neighbours. Although utterly unprovable it did make for a pretty believable case.
How about a push for a moratorium on the export of artillery and tanks and the like? Ammunition? Land mines?
This stuff isn't manufactured onsite, these are export items.
A lot could be done to insure a future peace by pushing the UN and working within our own countries. The US is not so much the worlds Sheriff as it is the worlds Janitor
Seeing this, it just occured to me that if Bush set out to rectify this policy it could make him a real hero. Then again he would have to admit that a number of his predecessors did something very greedy and utterly stupid like selling large amounts of weapons into an on purpose destabelized region.
Sonja GCU: Naaaaah... or did they?
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