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The United States had been a major supplier of weaponry for many years now. Inventors here have created some of the scariest and most destructive weaponry ever to exist in the hands of man. Not only should we spend taxpayer money to reduce conventional arms caches worldwide, we should also try to help places heal that have been damaged economically or even spiritually by our nation's actions. The founding fathers were men of faith who believed in justice and freedom. Now we act on profit and prejudice in our dealings; if a country has oil they can do horrible things and we won't say a thing. By doing things like reducing weapon caches worldwide we might be furthering our interest in a more holistic way than we do now.

The simple truth is that we want to stay on top in the order of world powers. Since the 1980's we've been the only true world power but we are seeing several nations rising very rapidly. China's billion or so people want to experience the comfort and freedom we have and they are pushing hard to achieve and build more every day. This means that we are now competing for resources. But the situation gets more complex when we are also doing a lot of trading with them, mostly through buying products made in China or partnering with them to make more profit. The middle class in China is growing at an incredible rate as well. And finally, China's military is fast becoming a very intimidating entity. War exercises are becoming more frequent and they are threatening Taiwan's independence. This puts us in a precarious position because we are allies with Taiwan and are trying to be economic partners with China.

The middle east, primarily Egypt and other countries on a decent policy footing with us, have also profited and lost because of our actions. We've attacked a country in their midst twice now and have also gone after Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Many have been killed on both sides as one minute of any newscast will tell you. All of these facts add up to this: the world is a very dangerous place to be allowing large caches of weapons to be available to irate and perhaps justifiably homicidal civilians and armed forces and political leaders. While we can only influence some countries because of complex political issues involving the our livelihood and theirs, we can do more to assure that weapon's caches contain less weapons and less dangerous weapons by not producing or controlling more of our produced weaponry.

NEW Creations 2007
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