Making a shed load of cash.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...856915,00.html
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Promoting peace is for wimps - real governments sell weapons
Labour seems to see the escalating dangers in the Middle East as little more than an opportunity for business
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So why does Her Majesty's Government behave like a subsidiary of BAE? A report by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT) shows that 39% of all the senior public servants who go to work for the private sector are employees of the Ministry of Defence moving into arms firms. In return, scores of arms dealers are seconded to the ministry. The man who runs DESO, for example, previously worked for BAE, selling arms in the Middle East.
CAAT lists the government committees stuffed with arms executives, the donations, the lobbyists, the Labour peers taking the corporate shilling, and I am sure all this plays an important role. But it seems to me that something else is at work. There appears to be a sense among some at the core of government that peace, human rights and democracy are for wimps, while the serious business, for real players, is war and the means by which it is enacted.
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Of course, the Saudis are good Muslims, who read a special Koran that is good. The fact Saudi's have more suicide bombers than most is irrelevant, because the Royal family will reign no matter what the people want there.
Ahhhhh, promoting freedom and democracy around the world. Don't you feel proud.