The Children of Cain

The M1A and M1A2 main battle tanks continue to play an important role in conventional warfare in the middle east, as they have helped western countries conquer their enemies and, in so doing, maintained an uneasy peace in the region. Whenever these warmachines enter villages and cities, freedom fighters surrender at once for few would ever dare challenge the might of these terrifying monsters.
But here's the rub.
It costs 4.35 million U.S. dollars, roughly 218 million Philippine pesos, to build one M1A2 main battle tank, which makes it a very expensive and extravagant weapon of war. An able military commander can defeat enemy army without a multi-million dollar weapon like this. It has been done before. Take for example, how the Mujahedin of Afghanistan defeated the hordes of Russian tanks that were sent to exterminate them back in the 1980's?
Hasn't anyone considered that the cost of an M1A2 battle tank is equal to the amount necessary to send 1,090 less fortunate Filipino chilren to school - from grade one to highschool @ Php 200,000.00 pesos per child? And yet The U.S. Army alone has 1,174 operational M1A2's and 4,393 M1A1's!

But that's nothing compared to Tomahawk missles!

One Tomahawk Cruise Missile costs $569,000.00 - roughly 28,450,000 million pesos. In the 1991 Persian Gulf War alone, 288 Tomahawks were launched! That's 8,193,600,000.00 wasted Philippine Pesos! With this vast amount of money, the Philippine government could have either built 1,639.00 public schools @ Php 5,000,000.00 per school for Filipino children or could have sent 40,968 Filipino children to school from grade one to highschool @ Php 200,000 per child.That's how expensive it is to wage war in thge 21st Century.

These facts only show how deranged man is because he prefers to kill his brother rather than send his children to school. He would rather kill for power, money and oil rather than help his brother provide a better future for all children.
How can we truly say that we are civilized and sentient beings when we would rather follow corrupt governments and selfish politicians than protect the basic rights of our children?There are no but's, if's, and impossible's when the rights of children are at stake.

We are still, after all, the children of Cain.
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