GM has screwed up about everything they touched (due to pompous inefficient inflexible leaders)... it was also a miracle that Volvo survived Ford ownership. You ought to look into the story of Ross Perot, IBM, his data company, his time on GM board, how much he pissed of GM CEO with brutal honest truth time and time again, and his (very financially rewarding) dismissal from the board (he was bought out).
Pity about Saab, great history, great products, great engineers. With the right commitment, funding, patience and leadership, the Saab brand could pull a total Phoenix rise from ashes job in the automotive world and be even more of a strong brand and product.
We can say pistols, rifles, and things that fire projectiles kill... and be against the manufacture of them, but a nation's military and police force have a use for them and the outfits that make them. If a military of a nation did not pose enough a threat of death to another nation with aspirations to take it over, then that nation would be quickly having a different national language. No one in a nation desires that.
People could look upon my status as a former, decades long military person and think I was so totally for going to Iraq and Afghanistan. Anyone with any ability to reason, collect enough time and data to see obvious facts... these would be able to conclude that lies and hidden motives caused our nation to send all those personnel and resources to those places and that the publicly stated objectives were bogus, yet quickly achieved, yet the personnel and resources remained, and in many cases increased. Undoubtedly, the cost of lives, loss of livelihood and future for millions in those places were negatively affected from the reaction. This happened throughout times where both dominant political parties were in majority of house, senate, and executive branch at different times. That says it all to anyone who can see.
A nation can rightfully declare war and make war against another nation who threatened that nation or made war, or rightfully declare war and make war against such organizations who threatened said nation or have made war... but anyone with eyes and time can know that declaration of and execution of war to those two places was done based on lies and continued with more... even after it was well known publicly.
I would believe such a thing is way worse than the mere production of arms that is done with the proper intent.