about whether this increase
in fatalities is a response
to the increase of small arms,
or the other way around.
But here's what we should
really take away from this.
What we should take away from this
is that this is a relationship
worth scrutinizing,
especially when you consider
that small arms that were shipped to Iraq
for use by the Iraqi Army,
or to Syria for so-called
moderate opposition fighters,
that those arms, many of them,
are now in the hands of ISIS;
or when you consider that arms
that were shipped to Libya
are now actively drifting
across the Sahel,
and ending up with groups
like Boko Haram and al Qaeda
and other militant groups.
And therein lies the problem.
Because, you see,
small arms anywhere
are a menace everywhere,
because their first stop
is rarely their last.
Spending on war per person per year
now amounts to about 249 dollars --
249 dollars per person,
which is roughly 12 times
what we spend on foreign aid,