Charging Iraq and Selling More Weapons
Written by Ryan Andrew at 11:47 PM
A New York Times article reported a few weeks ago that at the peak of the Iraqi tensions and occupation, we were selling weapons to countries once banned from sales, or countries never heard of. The sad thing here is, this doesn't even scrape the nation's debt hole.
In most cases, the sales aren't that bad - we are merely helping out undemocratic nations in a democratic-spreading terror and lies war. Kuwait and Egypt are perfectly harmless in the current decade. But unstable Saudi and Uzbekistan and others like them make me worry that Cheney is so blood-thirsty that they are ignoring mistakes discovered in Afghanistan (yes, back in the only legitimate campaign Bush ran) - Don't sell weapons to people you plan to piss off in your lifetime.
Either way, it's all hunky-dory now, but why not spread peace? Why not sign a clean air bill or a nuclear arms bill? Oh, that's right - we're selfish America.
In most cases, the sales aren't that bad - we are merely helping out undemocratic nations in a democratic-spreading terror and lies war. Kuwait and Egypt are perfectly harmless in the current decade. But unstable Saudi and Uzbekistan and others like them make me worry that Cheney is so blood-thirsty that they are ignoring mistakes discovered in Afghanistan (yes, back in the only legitimate campaign Bush ran) - Don't sell weapons to people you plan to piss off in your lifetime.
Either way, it's all hunky-dory now, but why not spread peace? Why not sign a clean air bill or a nuclear arms bill? Oh, that's right - we're selfish America.
1 Notes -
It's interesting how the sale of weapons works... and I completely agree with you, it is logically not to sell weapons to people who you're not totally happy with. In reality though, leading a nation is a game of strategy that has been played since the first nation-states. Give a little, take a little, sign this treaty, break that one.. and the world keeps turning.
I'll concede that we (America) is just as guilty as national-centric ideology as the next country. We're the center of the universe, right? haha
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