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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe could defeat ISIS with a weapons embargo, But.....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/24/1453850/-If-you-want-to-be-safe-from-terrorists-tell-the-govt-to-stop-making-them
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We could defeat ISIS with a weapons embargo, But..... (Original Post)
kpete
Nov 2015
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Oneironaut
(5,504 posts)1. Sell weapons, destroy those weapons, sell more weapons.
It's a racket.
treestar
(82,383 posts)2. How does that happen?
No real support for that statistic at the site.
If this could be proven, it would be a very good thing for anti-war arguments.
KG
(28,751 posts)3. I think an embargo on those face masks might work...
pampango
(24,692 posts)4. We could stop the whole civil war with an arms embargo against all sides but
there is too much money is made by the arms merchants supplying all sides.
Pergun
(1 post)5. Malyutka AT-3 'Sagger'
If ISIS has so much US made weapons, why is he holding up a Malyutka AT-3 'Sagger'?
That one is made in Russia, Putin's friends are supplying ISIS with weapons trough Croatia.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)6. While I'm all for an embargo, I'm calling BS on the 75% claim
In every video and picture they have Russian made AKs, machine guns and RPG's.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)7. They likely have some US weapons.
Let's not forget the fearless Iraqi battalions abandoning their US-made weapons, en masse.