After national opposition to the proposed sale of our ports to DP World, it appears the administration has found a way to one up itself in the bad idea department – selling $20 billion of weapons to the Sauds. The logic is that by arming Iranian neighbors, there will be pressure to suspend its enrichment of uranium for weapons grade use. One need only to look to Iraq to see how well that strategy has worked out in a smaller, less dangerous scale. The last thing we should be doing is importing more weapons into a region where their disappearance via theft is reasonably forseeable. Precision-guided bombs in the wrong hands is a one way ticket to World War III.
The proceeds of this sale could singlehandedly pay for about eight more weeks of continued military operations in Iraq. One can imagine that a new package of tax cuts in this neighborhood will soon be proposed by the administration, which will be predictably steered towards weapons contractors and wealthy individuals.
The spectacle of our suited torturer-in-chief lecturing the Saudis ‘gently’ on human rights is an absurdity to beggar belief.
To see this strutting enemy of our Constitution ‘promoting democratic principles’ in the Gulf States confirms my belief that Dadaist hoodlums are running our foreign policy.
How else to explain this satire of a rational approach to promoting peace in a region where war between Iran and the Arab states could ignite a world-wide conflagration?