Yet they are weaker than they seem.įirst, they have been playing the fear game for more than a century, and it has worn thin. They control the present system and keep it in place. They have a couple of million professionals working for them, and receive some $500 billion for their business.
It includes some politicians security people bankers, who provide loans for weapons and, especially, arms companies, which have a vested interest in military proliferation.Ĭonstantly, through sales pressure, bribery, the influencing of politicians, scares, and weapon promotion, these companies go about their business of generating war and the fear of war. The war business is run by the military-industrial complex. In the 20th century, it killed 200 million, injured a similar number, traumatised another 100 million, and destroyed perhaps a tenth of the world’s work. We know weapons and wars repeatedly do not work, and the supposed success of militarism needs to be held up for examination. It is the standard government position all the way back to Churchill.Ĭhristians, however, in the name of the gospel of peace, need to address this hope placed in weapons. Most of the West signs up to the mantra that evil must be defeated by weapons and war. The comments were laughed off by Mrs May, but they demonstrate how ready the political class and the media are to talk about war as a solution to diplomatic disputes. THE former Conservative leader Lord Howard suggested last week that the Prime Minister should show the same resolve in defending Gibraltar as Margaret Thatcher had in defending the Falklands.
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