Why We Fight: Well simply put there are Hefty Profits to be made in it

My previous post has made me very interested in watching the highly acclaimed movie Why We Fight . The 2005 movie on why we humans enjoy fighting ourselves, was awarded the Jury Prize at the recent Sundance Film Festival and has been effective at communicating why the US-method of fighting 'terror', will inevitably be our downfall. This movie and theme is one of the reasons why I am proud to be a Canadian, as we don't embrace war as much as others – let’s just hope it doesn't change...

So the movie showcases the following:

• how the tragic events of 9/11 can lead to the further privatization of wars and Ministries of Defense
  
• the US Dept. of Defense has an annual budget of... are you ready for this: $750,000,000 (and for all you fellow Canadians that’s USD!). Wow… imagine what you could do with that for education, health and housing… but instead it directly/indirectly goes towards killing fellow human beings.
  
• How taxpayers money is being wasted for the profits of any company doing business related to wars and defense. Contracted companies are making arms and war-related items and charging governments an arm and leg for their products. This is not acceptable and I am hoping will not happen in Canada.
  

Noam Chomsky, Stephen Lewis, and other respectable academics and world leaders have concisely alluded that War is a Business: hefty profits are made in killing innocent lives, whether it be civilians, animals or other forms of Mother Nature and destroying the Earth (for oil, forests, or natural resources). War is an industry I would rather not invest in; in business terms, the long-term return on investment (ROI) is not favourable as the ROI would 100%, that is a 100% demise of the world as we know it.

To the peoples/nations of the world - let’s stop being barbaric in our actions and try to achieve positive change. There are larger items on the agenda that need solving rather than killing one another for the sake of money.