Nothing to be proud of: The real American exceptionalism is selling the most weapons in the world

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By selling weapons at alarming levels, the U.S. is further fueling the extremism it purports to be fighting

EXCERPT:

The U.S. has just 5 percent of the global population, but sells more than half of its weapons. And this number is increasing.

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That is to say, the U.S. sold over 3.5 times more weapons in 2014 than Russia, the world’s second-largest arms dealer.

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In the past five years, the Obama administration has done well over $100 billion in arms deals with the Saudi monarchy. From 2010 to 2014, the U.S. sold more than $90 billion in weapons to the Saudi regime. In October 2015, the Obama administration approved over $11 billion more. Less than three days after the November Paris attacks, the U.S. sold another $1.3 billion of bombs to Saudi Arabia.

LINK Salon:

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/30/nothing_to_be_proud_of_the_real_american_exceptionalism_is_selling_the_most_weapons_in_the_world_by_far/

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1. K&R.....

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2. Western hypocrisy knows no bounds... nt