http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=oneworld/6573941221095296857”If just half of the world's military expenditures -- now reaching about one trillion dollars annually -- were diverted to humanitarian aid, including population and family planning assistance, there would be realistic opportunities to achieve the peace, stability and security that misguided leaders insist can be won by bullets, bayonets and bombs,” Fornos said.
There must be a significant reversal in global attitudes, not the least of which is honouring humanitarian commitments, to avoid the nightmare of our epitaph reading: ”They chose the risks of war because they lacked the courage to accept the risks of peace”, he added.
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I wonder if part of the Cheap Labor Conservatives push for more birth (anti-abortion, anti-pill, anti-planned parenthood) is so they have more Cheap Labor and more consumers for their corporation growth.
Anyway this is a good article over all. Rate it