re: #6 Dark_Falcon

Baloney! To refuse to sell arms to middle eastern nations is simply to let other nations dominate the trade. We stopped arms shipments to Egypt when Morsi was turfed out and even now that we shipped them the fighters and gunship helos they ordered they’ve given the next contracts to France and Russia, respectively. The only order we got to keep was for our M1A1 tanks and that because General Dynamics and Congress threw in TUSK* upgrade kits for M1A1s Egypt already has.

There’s going to be violence there. But if we’re smart about how we handle things, we can use arms sales to gain or maintain influence.

Like we did with the Mujahideen.