Foreign Policy
Jon Stewart explains:
Caught it last night. I don’t care who you are, that’s funny. And, well, kinda sad.
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September 7th, 2007 at 11:39 am
How come our taxpayer dollars are going to arm foreigners when, as posted earlier on this very site, we only have guns for nine out ten Americans in our own country? We should be looking to arm that ten percent first and then the Saudis, Israelis, Iraqis and Afghanis. 😉
September 7th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
You overlook the felons and the insane, and the insane felons, who make up the 10%. God gave us two arms, and hence we all (90% of us) need two firearms each before we start concentrating on the rest of the world.
The difference between long arms and short arms, I believe, lays mostly in genetics. Having one longarm and a short arm as a sidearm make it very difficult for your auntie to knit you a well-fitting concealment sweater for Christmas.
Me? Confused?
September 7th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
I actually agree with him, but I have a sour taste from the lie that we armed Saddam or Osama. After all, if we had really armed Saddam don’t you think we would have seen more Sherman and Abrams tanks and a few million M-16s and some F-16s, instead of… AK-47s, T-60s, and Mirage fighters?
September 7th, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Well, technically, he says we armed Afghanistan and then Osama presumably got his hands on the stuff.
September 7th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
We haven’t had a consistent foreign policy in the Middle East (besides helping Israel) since WWII. Largely because that region is unpredictable, the Cold War and its ending, and foreign policy always changes with every president.
We first trained and provided mainly small arms to “freedom fighters” as they were known back then in Afghanistan (Osama was part of that) to repel the invading Soviets. It worked. Remember we had a containment policy and that worked too. Unfortunately the enemy of our enemy was hardly loyal to us, that’s the world we live in.
Then we supplied both Iran and Iraq in the Iran-Iraq war, because we wanted both to lose. Figuring in the 79 hostage crisis and the Islamic radical revolution that overthrew the pro American Shah in Iran, we provided more aid to Saddam Hussein. Guess what, they both lost. It was a war of attrition that resulted in a stalemate.
Saudi Arabia, despite radical elements in their society much like every Arabian and Islamic society over there, has been a consistent ally. I think Stewart was disingenuous to imply that our aid to them was because of Iran. Iran has been weakening economically and socially for years. Militarily, they’ve been maintaining at the cost of their citizens.
You could say we screwed up the Middle East, but a more accurate version would be that they are screwed up. We’re only in there because of the Soviets, at Saudi Arabia’s and Kuwait’s request in 1990, retribution in 2002 in Afghanistan, and a dangerous dictator who was thought by everyone to have WMD in 2003.
September 7th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
Everybody armed SH, including us. We gave him howitzers and artillery, bombs, helicopters, technical support (including some CIA help on how to make chemweaps work better), tactical advice, trucks, armor for vehicles, etc. The fact that his troops carried AK47s they’d acquired long before the 80s (when we made it clear to him that we wouldn’t let Iran beat him, and Rummy went over there to shake his hand and assure him of our continued support) when we started arming him doesn’t mean we didn’t do it, Phelps.
Skepticism is good, but only informed skepticism.