Still Number One
Posted : August 31, 2004 at 11:41 pm [America/Los_Angeles]
[via Still Number One]
Anyone who truly buys the notion that the United States is a nation devoted to peace and stability beyond what is immediately beneficial to us should consider this: Our nation exports three times as many weapons as our nearest competitor in the market.
Death is intimately interwoven with our economy, not just oil. And until that changes, we will be the root cause of much of the violence afficting the world.
The United States continued to dominate the global arms market last year, signing deals worth more than 14.5 billion US dollars, or 56.7 percent of all global arms sales deals, according to a US Congressional study released on Monday.
Russia ranked second, signing deals worth 4.3 billion dollars, or 16.8 percent of all global arms agreements, the study showed. Germany was the third largest arms supplier in 2003, signing deals worth 1.4 billion dollars.
Wow! I had no idea.
- Anand
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