Jesus Politics linked to this:
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953
Apt insight for us, who spend billions on Iraq, a small portion of which could have made such a difference toward lifting up those who are hit with hardship and tragedy of unspeakable proportions, while instead, we use that money to do just the oppostite, and wreak the same upon others.