Arm your allies, hope they never turn on you, plus good for weapons of destruction manufacturers
Over the last few months of 2011, the Obama administration inked deals to send U.S fighter jets and other systems to several key allies in the Asia-Pacific region and the Middle East. Those transactions have been labeled by analysts as hedges against China’s military build-up and an increasingly aggressive Iran.
Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute, in a Monday Forbes.com piece, called the administration’s arms sales “a striking departure from the ideological preferences of the post-Vietnam Democratic Party.”
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He highlighted a Dec. 24 announcement that Washington would sell Iranian rival Saudi Arabia nearly 85 Boeing-made F-15 fighter jets, along with advanced munitions.
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Boeing assembles its F-15s in Missouri, and GE makes its engines in Ohio. As Thompson points out, both are presidential swing states. If Obama or his eventual GOP opponent takes both states, that “could determine the outcome of the 2012 presidential race.”
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/201961-lexington-analyst-obama-arms-sales-a-striking-departure-from-other-dems?du
So what if the billions of wasted dollars and potential for massive killings are there - who needs stinking peace on Earth. As long as leaders all over the Earth arm their countries against whatever or whoever the World is safe - right?
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