happened to see sunrise today, along with that observed few men in khaki shorts and vests lead by someone in similar attire but more command, it was a cantonment area and the defense folks were doing their job..
i long cherished thought came back.."what a waste?"the price we pay for fear..these are men all able, intelligent, healthy capable of doing even the most rigorous of tasks, contributing to mankind and what job are they doing..protecting a nation.
i respect the defense forces and owe them my safely but what ails me is their need, just googled out the defense expenditure of various countries , then found whats their GDP to my expected dismay it was a sizable percentage, add to it what the GDP might have been had all these men been doing other jobs..
and whats their raison d'être , a fear of other men and this freaking expenditure is self breeding, your neighbor develops a missile and you spend on a far reaching one, then he gives a rejoinder and this goes on..
if only every man respected the sovereignty of others..we wouldn't need the men to ear khakis in anticipation..
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May like to see the cost of a bullet (=a life). The article was written in May 2002 - present cost must be higher. http://www.ecomass.com/articles/pdf/bullet.pdf
interesting stuff candid...the cost still assumes the bullet was fired..:(
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