Weapons Industry: Source of Terrorism

At this stage of history, the weapons industry has emerged to become the worst source of terrorism that ever existed over the past six thousand years of recorded history. The lethal weapons it has developed over the past fifty years alone, have killed more people than were ever massacred over the past 2,500 years, going back to the time of the Persian, Greek and Roman empires. What is amazing is not the fact that such an industry has become the greatest terrorist organization in the world, but that it succeeded to hypnotize intelligent people from every walk of life and profession into believing that its product contributes to the protection and security of our respective nations.
Warranty of Death

Such a lethal industry constitutes a warranty of death. Tens of millions every year incur cancer because of toxic wastes it produces which poison our air, our water, and our land where we grow our food. As though this would not be enough, several groups at the grassroots level work constantly like devils to create regional conflicts as to justify the continued manufacture and sales of weapons of destruction. Their main tactic is fear, which has led many people to panic and which has haunted most government officials of the world’s leading nations. The weapons industry is determined to survive in its business till the end of times. The only way to its assured survival is the continued creation of local, regional and global conflicts.

What is the difference between the massacre of 5,000 innocent civilians killed by a lawless group of virtually unknown origin and the massacre of 5,000 innocent civilians massacred by a legally existing agency known as the military? As far as the lives of these innocent people are concerned, it does not make any difference at all. However, as far as our government officials are concerned, there is a great difference. In fact, US government officials had referred to the innocent civilians killed in New York and Washington, DC as “victims” while they viewed the innocent civilians killed in Afghanistan with American weapons merely as “collateral damage!”