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US arms companies are making a killing.
New report shows how flood of munitions from across the globe, including the United States, are making peace impossible in Middle East
by
Jon Queally
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/06/endless-flow-weapons-fuels-endless-war-iraq-and-syria
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Taken together, the pattern shows how the persistent flood of weapons into the regionnot just from the U.S., but from China, Russia, and other large suppliers as wellhas fueled the violence and the killing on all sides of the conflict.
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As Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, told Common Dreams in reaction to CAR's September report on weapons in the region: "This is one more piece of evidence of why military solutions have devastating consequences in the immediate and long terms. We see an example of the consequences of the over-arming of the region if we look back at Afghanistan in the 1980s during the anti-Soviet War when the U.S. provided stinger missiles that can bring down aircraft to mujahedin guerrillas who morphed into al Qaeda."
louis-t
(23,297 posts)"Please blow up the weapons that we sold you that you gave to our ally of the week that then turned on us and started killing our other allies so we can sell you more weapons that will invariably end up in the wrong hands again and then we'll sell you some more weapons so you can blow up those weapons....."
JEB
(4,748 posts)Feeding the addiction to violence.
samsingh
(17,601 posts)JEB
(4,748 posts)Less of both would probably help things. Both are hard to moderate.