INDIA LAUNCHES MISSILE

[toolmansteve]

BBC News - India launches long-range missile

Some more of OUR money that we pay to India being blasted off into the atmosphere. The small inset announces " Pakistan successfully tests missile "" !! Yet another place where our money goes to feed their starving and ill housed population. Why are they allowed to do this, why do governments put weapons before welfare. ???????

[mattybhoy]

They aren't the only ones mate. USA, Russia and states from the former USSR, China, France, UK, the Koreans, Turkey, Iran, Thailand etc, etc, etc the list goes on and on.. Very sad isn't it?

It would be easier putting a list together of countries that don't put weapons before welfare.

[super jumbe]

I see nothing wrong.

Look none of the third world countries had to build the arsenals, missiles, they are forced to have them because so called the UN is hear not to protect the poor countries but to abuse them, now wonder every 1 wants the nukes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Proof, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, now Syria, may lead to Iran they have to protect the welfare of the nation 1 way or the other??..

[mattybhoy]

I agree. Who are the USA or the UN to pick and choose who has and who doesn't have nuclear weapons? If Pakistan are testing of course India are going to do the same and vice-versa. I think the only countries that aren't interested are the neutral countries that do not have a direct threat.

But it's still a sad state of affairs.

[DOUGALMCD]

The big picture is selling arms. Someone is always looking to be more powerful than they really are. We all know the Americans have pressed that button before and wouldn't hesitate to do it again. I'm sure we all agree that we'd be better off without them as it is just another giant money making scam.

[GastonJ]

The bigger picture is what they spend aid money on. I'm sure that, like most of the UK population, that we know we give aid to countries like India (even though our economy is at deaths door) my expectation is that the aid will go to feed, clothe, educate and cure the poor.

What appears to happen is that they take the aid and then spend money they should spend helping their own on building weapons to kill other people with. That's the part that's wrong. So we're just helping them spend money on weapons instead of helping their poorer people.

[mattybhoy]

The even bigger picture is that India are the largest importer of weapons in the world - who are the 2nd largest exporter of weapons in the world?? Hence the money is going back to the UK anyway.

[bobwill]

If I was living next to pakistan I would want to be able to defend my self but with india's muslim population growing rapidly india must watch the enemy from within

[donnymo66]

Think you will find most of these countries are fully equipped by the Russians especially Syria and India its all about the wonga .

[GastonJ]

It's about time we stopped the aid to such countries. A country with a such a large GDP shouldn't need aid anyway. Don't get me wrong I'm all for making sure that the poorest are cared for, but the more we give the more such countries can spend on weapons.

[aleister crowley]

Did people miss the story about the aid the UK gives to India???

India?s Finance Minister has said that his country ?does not require? British aid, describing it as ?peanuts?.

Pranab Mukherjee and other Indian ministers tried to terminate Britain?s aid to their booming country last year - but relented after the British begged them to keep taking the money, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

India tells Britain: We don't want your aid - Telegraph

[GastonJ]

Did people miss the story about the aid the UK gives to India???

India?s Finance Minister has said that his country ?does not require? British aid, describing it as ?peanuts?.

Pranab Mukherjee and other Indian ministers tried to terminate Britain?s aid to their booming country last year - but relented after the British begged them to keep taking the money, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

India tells Britain: We don't want your aid - Telegraph

Perhaps Dave Cameron and co don't read.

[waqasahmed]

BBC News - India launches long-range missile

Some more of OUR money that we pay to India being blasted off into the atmosphere. The small inset announces " Pakistan successfully tests missile "" !! Yet another place where our money goes to feed their starving an ad ill housed population. Why are they allowed to do this, why do governments put weapons before welfare. ???????

I think the UK gov't knows what they are doing here. Governmental aid rarely gets to the civilian population, and nearly always lines the pockets of the elite. If the elite weren't building weapons, they'd have more money in their own pockets. In an ironic state of affairs, this would help people get in to work by working on the weaponry, as opposed to more money going in to politicians pockets

They aren't the only ones mate. USA, Russia and states from the former USSR, China, France, UK, the Koreans, Turkey, Iran, Thailand etc, etc, etc the list goes on and on.. Very sad isn't it?

It would be easier putting a list together of countries that don't put weapons before welfare.

Indeed. Supposedly, the US could feed the world many times over, but that money goes on to military instead

I agree. Who are the USA or the UN to pick and choose who has and who doesn't have nuclear weapons? If Pakistan are testing of course India are going to do the same and vice-versa. I think the only countries that aren't interested are the neutral countries that do not have a direct threat.

But it's still a sad state of affairs.

Indeed. I'm quite anti-nukes but I find it ironic that Iran isn't allowed nukes because it's a destabilising force (even though it was our government who bombed Iran to the ground when it was a secular democracy, because the leader started to nationalise all the oil companies), but doesn't consider that the neighbour next door is doing the exact same thing - and they've been helped by the USA. See the Vanunu case

The bigger picture is what they spend aid money on. I'm sure that, like most of the UK population, that we know we give aid to countries like India (even though our economy is at deaths door) my expectation is that the aid will go to feed, clothe, educate and cure the poor.

What appears to happen is that they take the aid and then spend money they should spend helping their own on building weapons to kill other people with. That's the part that's wrong. So we're just helping them spend money on weapons instead of helping their poorer people.

Pretty much, but it's been that way for centuries. Whilst there are some people asking for us to give aid on humanitarian grounds, and some people asking for us to take away aid on grounds such as the above, I want us NOT to give aid on humanitarian grounds.

Here's a politician that argues pretty much the same thing

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zqUB59XYWQ"]Imran Khan, Head of the Pakistani Tehreek-e-Insaf Party: US Aid Is Destroying Pakistan - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEI7PDrVc9M"]Africa and the Curse of Foreign Aid - YouTube[/ame]

Also, I believe that by giving aid, it's helping countries stay undeveloped, because they're then told not to do certain things ie: Pakistan has agreed not to tap for it's own resources because Iran said so (Iran being a more powerful country)

Corruption also brings countries down a lot
Pakistan: poor economy, rich country ***8211; The Express Tribune

Pakistan is a rich, rich country: Imran Khan ***8211; The Express Tribune

The main things they lack is the investment in infrastructure, leadership, an uncorrupt gov't etc...

The even bigger picture is that India are the largest importer of weapons in the world - who are the 2nd largest exporter of weapons in the world?? Hence the money is going back to the UK anyway.

Exactly what I believe. I've never really thought of as gov't "aid" as aid. If we withdrew all our aid today, the people of those countries wouldn't know when we gave aid and when we stopped

If I was living next to pakistan I would want to be able to defend my self but with india's muslim population growing rapidly india must watch the enemy from within

It's not a religious issue. It's a fact that India and Pakistan don't seem to like each other. India has no problem with Bangladesh

It's about time we stopped the aid to such countries. A country with a such a large GDP shouldn't need aid anyway. Don't get me wrong I'm all for making sure that the poorest are cared for, but the more we give the more such countries can spend on weapons.

Indeed. I don't like "aid" because of the reasons given above

[Liteace]

If I was living next to pakistan I would want to be able to defend my self but with india's muslim population growing rapidly india must watch the enemy from within

If I was living next to pakistan Id move

[waqasahmed]

If I was living next to pakistan Id move

Do you have any reasons?