Pudgy Indian

I watched "The Lord of War," with Nicholas Cage last night. The movie says it is based on actual events, which I have no doubt. It is a pattern repeated throughout time.

It makes me think of the gun runners to the Indians. Men would sell guns to Indians, encourage Indians to kill each other, like with the Iran/Iraq war where Arabs were encouraged to kill each other so arms dealers could make millions.

This was mentioned in the movie. One arms dealer who said that there was a difference between him and Nicholas Cage's character in that he took sides and Nick would just sell arms to anyone. Nick asked him about selling arms to both Iran and Iraq during their war. The man smiled and said he wanted them to kill each other. Makes me think of Henry Kissinger, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, wanted in three countries for war crimes, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, responsible for the carpet bombing of Cambodia and Vietnam, responsible via complicity in the genocide of the East Timorese by Indonesia, I think of him making the same comment about the Iran/Iraq war: "I hope they kill each other off."

And Nicholas sells and sells and sells more in the hopes, he alleges, that people miss, because when they miss, they'll need more weapons in order to kill each other off or create many horrific massacres.

And there are always people who "buy" into it. There are always the horrifically cruel that want weapons to kill more people to maintain authority because they have no real "power." It is their guns that have the power. They cannot walk unarmed, unprotected amongst their people. If they did, they would be killed for their horrific Lord of the Flies behavior. The people with the guns have no "power," their guns have the power. Their willingness to be mean and cruel to others because they have the guns and the others don't. That was powerfully illustrated in "The Lord of War."

And there are always people like Nicholas Cage's character, Yuri Orlov, selling arms to people to kill each other. But the sweetest part illustrated in the movie was at the end in a single sentence that gave the names of the five biggest arms dealers in the world: The United States of America, Britain, France, China, and Russia. Yuri Orlov, the reality behind the illegal gun running character, is nothing compared to those of these five greatest arms dealers. The five most horrific arms dealers make the laws in transporting weapons and weapons sales, but they also appreciate the smaller enterpreneurial types because they keep the conflicts fed so the alleged legit dealers can keep up their sales.

Someday, we all just have to stop killing each other, and put the assholes at the top on trial.