To the editor: The query of why we’re spending billions for arms marks a defining situation over what our nation really is (“Billions for weapons, rather than troops, won’t make us safer,” July 22). America is presently the provider of 43% of the military weapons bought world wide. Weapons manufacturing is a core a part of our economic system. For that to occur, we’d like clients each in and out of doors of the U.S. to pay for our product. Now we have offers with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, NATO allies and, in fact, Ukraine. The checklist of our clients is huge.
In his farewell speech in 1961, President Eisenhower warned us concerning the rise of the military-industrial advanced. Whereas he actually supported having a “mighty” army institution for our personal protection, he advised us to not let a big arms trade endanger our liberties or democratic processes. Can we admit we didn’t heed his warning?
Erica Hahn, Monrovia
