Arms industry the menace

Everybody knows: Most of the hijackers on 9/11 were Saudi Arabian. Wealthy Saudi Arabians support ISIS and other jihadi groups, while their government pretends to be against terrorism. Saudi Arabia is the American arms industry’s top customer.

There is no “moderate” rebel army in Syria, after so many American dollars were wasted to create one. The guns we supplied are now used by “the enemy.” Saudi Arabia routinely beheads more people than ISIS does.

The epidemic of gun violence and terrorist massacres inside our country grows from the proliferation of fetishistic gun ownership promoted by the gun industry and its lobbyist, the National Rifle Association.

Most Americans want more gun control measures, in spite of the NRA’s grip on our timid, paralyzed political class.

Barack Obama said in 2002: “You want a fight, President Bush? Let’s fight to make sure that … the arms merchants in our own country stop feeding the countless wars that rage across the globe … Let’s fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East … stop oppressing their own people, suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality.”

The real menace at home and abroad is the bloody arms industry.

Morton Alexander

Spokane