Originally Posted By: 4Salt

Obviously weapons sales to these foreign governments is something that the Administration thought useful in the geopolitical scheme of things... which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The U.S. has been doing it for a long time now.


Not always a bad thing, but sometimes it is.

The US armed the Afghani's to the teeth back in the 80's because they were fighting the Soviet's. Hundreds of millions of US dollars were spent giving them RPG's, missile's for taking out tanks and helicopters, etc. The Soviets couldn't handle the hardware losses so they gave up and went home.

Those Afghani's we were fighting in the 90's (and probably still) were the same SOB's, and they are shooting at us with guns we bought them.