Humanitarian Hypocrisy

Ok! What's I have to say would not suit my Facebook friends, for them a picture would suffice, but I have words on my mind today. Last night on TV I saw the film LORD OF WAR (Nicholas Cage always gets my attention). The subject of gun-running delivering surplus weapons to ((surely) arms-induced conflicts in remote corners of our battered world, sent a powerful message. Arms manufactureres and arms-manufacturing nations quietly supply weapons to both side of conflicts followed by land invasions and air strikes to combact 'rebel forces' who would not exist without their weapons. Of course pollution, destruction, death and refugee crises are morally appeased by appeals to aid and humanitarian efforts. One neat package with the blessing of religious groups, the UN and the stock market...