This article by BBC World titled the "Purchasing power of peace", updated at 21:52 GMT, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 22:52 UK, coldly describes the reasons for the vast increase in world defense budget spending which is expected to increase by 34% by 2012 to $1,527.6bn. One of the article's headings begins "poverty fuels violence" alluding to the fact that areas of poverty causes an increase in military spending. The irony is too blatant to dismiss, but the reasoning is all too human.
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