The War Industries and the U.S.

Oscar Arias Sanchez President of Costa Rica (awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end civil wars across Central America through the Esquipulas II Accords) has stated:

When a country decides to invest in arms, rather than in education, housing, the environment, and health services for its people, it is depriving a whole generation of its right to prosperity and happiness. We have produced one firearm for every ten inhabitants of this planet, and yet we have not bothered to end hunger when such a feat is well within our reach. Our international regulations allow almost three-quarters of all global arms sales to pour into the developing world with no binding international guidelines whatsoever. Our regulations do not hold countries accountable for what is done with the weapons they sell, even when the probable use of such weapons is obvious." We expected from the U.S. to protect the world against terrorists and keep up the hope of the International Peace between nations. But in the light of weapons industries do the U.S. ready to lose the wealth that the American gain from this business. Let us look at the figures and understand the meaning of these figures between the lines. The world’s largest arms exporters according to the Stockholm International Pease Research Institute are the U.S. Year 2001 exports are 5908 Year 2002 exports are 5229 Year 2003 exports are 5698 Year 2004 exports are 6866 Year 2005 exports are 6700 Year 2006 exports are 7453 Year 2007 exports are 8003 Year 2008 exports are 6288 Year 2009 exports are 6658 Year 2010 exports are 8641 The unit in these figures are so-called trend indicator values expressed in millions of US dollars at 1990s prices. This figure does not represent real financial flows but are a crude instrument to estimate volumes of arms transfers, regardless of the contracted prices, which can be as low as zero in the case of military aid. Ordered by descending 2000–2010 values. The information is from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. In this business are working  3,320,000 workers. Are the U.S. ready to release the employment in arms production to the street, I think not. In the light of all these figures we have no hope of International Peace because these arms must find markets and buyers. What we see in the world from wars are the markets and the buyers are the users of these arms whether the use is for self defence or  attacking other nations.