A $7 billion missile-defense system for the United Arab Emirates. An estimated $15 billion potential sale of Lockheed Martin's brand-new fighter plane to Israel. Billions of dollars in weaponry for Taiwan and Turkey. These and other recent deals helped make the United States the world's leading arms-exporting [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
“In Pakistan, the fighting ranges from communal violence and state repression, to attacks against India”
With this statement, Frida presupposes that the BJP Hindu Rightwing seperatist party claims that Pakistan attacked India in Mumbai are proven facts, a dubious thesis. Remember that not even the FBI will support this assertion. If another writer were to take this action I would likely interpret warmongering motives. I am at a loss to explain Frida’s participation in the promotion or rationalisation of ongoing aggression on Pakitan.
Perhaps if we were to simply pull out of Iraq and take all the guns with us the other side (armed primarily with Russian and Chinese AK-47s) would quickly bring an end to the conflict…
A better idea?
I expect the author is generally anti-gun, so be happy. These are guns which will not be sold here in the states.
A better idea?
Yes, genuine peace is achieved through mutual disarmament not unilateral disarmament. Of course supremacists are looking for a different sort of “peace”, something that most of us would describe as subjugation.
Real peace is generally concurrent with justice, to identify those who seek peace we need to find those who strive for justice. Those who promote disarming the weak in the absence of justice serve only the cause of violence.
I can’t say that I am happy to read the facts and news presented in this article, but I appreciate your willingness to share the truth. I hope to read more positive articles in the future from this site.
In Pakistan, the conflict ranges from communal hostility and land repression, to attacks against India, to noxious battles between Asiatic expeditionary and al FTO forces in the north provinces. Zion has utilised U.S.-supplied weapons in the West Bank and Gaza, as well as in the 2006 entrance of Lebanon. Colombia uses U.S. instrumentality to fisticuffs the take war. Of the 27 field conflicts during 2006 and 2007, 19 of them participating U.S-supplied weapons.
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