Thank you Presidents' Chirac & De Sylva                  by Rima Sayegh Janho

 
Two years ago I have wrote in this corner an article pledging weapons-producing countries to stop production just for 1 year and use the saved money for feeding hungry people (it would have fed them for years & years)
It is not possible for President Chirac
or President De Sylva to have read my article which was a like a shout in a valley that would only echo in it. Yet we heard the news about the presidents meeting last month. They decided on suggesting a project to the United Nations to incorporate VAT (value-added tax) on weapons selling & use the profits to feed the hungry.
Merci Monsieur Chirac & Gratsia Senieur De Sylva … my dream is becoming a truth
Was it telepathy? Was it based on political backgrounds or pure humanistic feelings?
Is it the rekindling of the unconscious U.N with humanistic & social issues?
Would a project like this be able to survive or at least be discussed with the World's decision makers?
God knows …
Weapons exporting countries would accept this project, as they are not paying anything. Who is then? For sure, they are the underdeveloped countries; the consumer pays the VAT while the retailer is far off the shore. Whether these countries accept or not, what is the weapons' trade future?

 
 

 

The obvious thing is the little that is being sold openly to the underdeveloped countries. The reckoning might be based on political, strategic, economic or financial (controlled by dominating countries) reasons.
I will not get into international political mazes & try to sell the bear's fur before it is hunted; but if my words two years ago were a valley's shout that faded away then what would the fate of the presidential shout. Presidents are able to shatter the sound and silence's wall & communicate their ideas through the earth's space & its satellites.
Would the great, greatest, or Goddess countries listen to these humanistic suggestions? I doubt it …
Alternatively, is the humanism now fading … as if it is being asked to depart to the holy lands while people are returning from it?
Even our satellite news is insignificant to these majestic countries.
Everybody is now heading towards Mars planet

Fasten your seatbelts …

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