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Wage peace, not war
(George Monbiot, The Guardian, June 4, 2002)
There is something dreamlike about our contemplation of the drift to war in Kashmir. While India and Pakistan move their missiles into position, in Britain our concerns are focused on the evacuation of our own citizens, the destination of the likely refugees, and the possibility that the Indian cricket team might be prevented from visiting England at the end of this month. That 12 million people could be vaporised if the war begins in earnest is viewed as regrettable, but nothing to do with us. . . . In the United States, the sense of detachment is even more palpable. . . . no one is proposing the measures necessary to prevent what could become the most lethal conflict since the second world war. . . . But at least the US has blocked new arms sales to India and Pakistan. The United Kingdom, by contrast, has done everything in its power to promote them. . . . More pertinent still, the nuclear weapons programmes in both India and Pakistan were initiated with the help of the west. . . . But there is no peace industry commensurate with the world's war industry. There are no vested interests to appease, no campaign contributions to be gained from preventing rather than encouraging the use of weapons.

posted by LoZo 8:09 PM