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by Joseph Malek

Created on: September 02, 2007   Last Updated: April 23, 2009

Clearly, it is not possible for the United States of America to control international arms trading. As a matter of fact, we happen to be one of the biggest international arms traders in the entire World. For many years the politicians within the Government of the Unites States as approved the sale of surplus military weapons to the Public and a host of underdeveloped Countries World-Wide.

The last know sale of arms from the United States was the recent sale to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel, for the amount of about 30 billion dollars. That's three thousand million dollars. That's big bucks, no matter how you describe that amount. On the other hand, that is new business for the companies that make those weapons of war. If you do not already know, corporations such as General Dynamics, Boeing and other aircraft makers need that extra business in order to continue to remain in business and keep tens of thousands of workers within the United States of America employed.

For that reason alone, I have supported such Government activities. Like it or not, if we do not make the weapons of war for the people within those other Countries, some other corporation within some other Country will provide those weapons to the buyers in question. The people within the Governments of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Great Britain, Germany and France are also dealers of weapons to the rest of the World, and/or the businesses that are located within those Countries.

I regrete to say that there are still places on our Earth where the people choose to resolve their differences by going to war and/or killing those who they oppose. Then again, the struggle to achieve wealth and power seems to be the main reason why tens of thousands of people are killied each year to achieve that goal.

Then again, I wonder how peace in the Middle East can be achieved when so much firepower is put into the hands of the people within Countries who are less than friendly to each other. Your guess is as good as mine. How, in the World, can we protect our troops from people within that region who, most likely, will use some of those weapons against them? I also wonder what President Bush was thinking when that happened. Kindly send him an email and ask him for an explanation. Then again, maybe you can ask our recently elected President of the United States of America when he expects to bring the people within our armed forces home and end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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