Today the Independent on Sunday, a British broadsheet, published an article on the most warmongering nations. Forty of the eight-one states reviewed are at war. Uganda headed the list:
The US came second, followed by Rwanda and then the UK
The publication is strangely co-incidental as only yesterday I had started a post on the UK's international missions.
For many years I have been a proponent of the UK reducing its international rôles & responsibilities commensurate with our actual size, unless those EU countries that rely on the United Kingdom and France financially support our armed forces and international escapades. As the latter is unlikely, then we ought to let the big players take over.
We are a very small island with delusions of grandeur harking back to an Empire that has long since gone.
Time to face up to our reality and look after our own: the hungry; the homeless; the injured & maimed; the sick; the disabled; the elderly; the young; the undereducated; the unemployed; the underemployed; the workers. In short: care for all our citizens, not just the rich and the arms-manufacturers.
Please do not misinterpret me: I am not saying we should not support foreign aid. Personally, I should like to see our soldiers being used to help construct infrastructure using the taxes set aside for international assistance rather than monies being handed over to corrupt governments, agencies and businesses.
I am a pantheist: which means I revere the natural world.
I am a humanist: which means I value all human life.
I am a Quaker: which means I try to respect life, all that contains & supports it.
I am a pacifist: which means I try to walk the path of peace.
I am a holist: which means I believe we are one, that everything is interconnected.
[Image description: Earth from space. © freeimageslive.com]
Any thoughts, folks?
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