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The National Security Strategy of the United States of America

Snuck in the middle, item 5...
V. Prevent Our Enemies from Threatening Us, Our Allies, and Our Friends with Weapons of Mass Destruction

and how will they attain this noble goal?

We must be prepared to stop rogue states and their terrorist clients before they are able to threaten or use weapons of mass destruction against the United States and our allies and friends.

(emphasis mine)

Hey, US, I have an idea.
If you want to take pre-emptive, unilateral action...
Why don't you...
Unilaterally.
Pre-emptively.
Stop selling billions of dollars worth of weapons all over the world every single year.

The MoJo Wire--Action Atlas, U.S. Arms Sales

Hmm, that reminds me, isn't there a country that buys billions of dollars of US weapons every year?
I guess the US would only sell that many weapons to a stable, democratic country though.
Oh, I remember the name of the country.
Saudi Arabia

So let's see how this works
sell US weapons to Iran
Shah falls
Iran uses US weapons against Iraq
so logically, sell US weapons to Iraq
oh wait, Iraq bad
better protect the Saudis from Iraq
by selling them US weapons
hmm, isn't it about time for the House of Saud to fall?

Seems to me the only ones making out like bandits are the Merchants of Death. posted by Richard at 22:07 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)