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We Should Stop Arming Everybody
americanthinker.com ^ | 4/17/2017 | Jedd Tylerl

Posted on 04/17/2017 5:29:36 AM PDT by rktman

The United States should stop arming the world. We should stop arming rebels, moderate rebels, freedom fighters, opposition forces, insurgencies, regimes, and most -- if not all -- nation states. These armaments spill American blood and the blood of people unrelated to the fray in which we picked sides. It is easier to act with moral clarity and mission purpose while striking military bases than while arming strangers.

President Obama shipped pallets of unmarked bills to our enemy, and lied about it, right around the time social-media campaigns began dubbing his the “scandal-free presidency.” United States companies selling equipment and chemicals that end up in the hands of dictators like Slobodan Milosevic and Kim Jung-un is grim. The U.S. government arming people who seem to have a righteous cause, but then sell the weapons to third parties who may have no such thing, is dreadful.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Philosophy; War on Terror
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Hmmm. I seem to remember arming a certain group of "freedom fighters" in a certain country back in the 80's that the cia armed with all sorts of weapons including stingers. How did that work out in the last few years? Seems like most of the players in the ME will eventually become our enemy and won't return weapons we "let them use".
1 posted on 04/17/2017 5:29:36 AM PDT by rktman
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No matter what we do to or for a muslim, at the end of the day, we are still infidels and the muslims will still hate us. None of them are worth saving.


2 posted on 04/17/2017 5:38:55 AM PDT by umgud
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3 posted on 04/17/2017 5:40:28 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: umgud

Zactly


4 posted on 04/17/2017 5:40:48 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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5 posted on 04/17/2017 5:41:29 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Whoever approved the shipment of 3,000+ armored Humvees to Iraq either knew that ISIS would get 2,300 of them, and should be hanged, or did not know ISIS would get them, and has demonstrated that even in microcosms with a strong U.S. presence, the fate of weapons cannot be predicted one year out.

"Paging Mr. McCain. Mr. John McCain. Please pickup a white courtesy telephone".

6 posted on 04/17/2017 5:48:22 AM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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Dunno.
I run towards “An armed Society is a Polite Society.”


7 posted on 04/17/2017 5:50:53 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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In my sojourns around the world I have seen more AKs and Uzis than US M-s. Regarding the Stingers sent to rebels in Afghanistan, is there any proof that anyone can supply that they were used outside of that country?


8 posted on 04/17/2017 5:56:17 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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Arm patriotic Americans, and teach them all there is to know about the care, feeding grooming and proper management of firearms, from Derringer pistols up to elephant guns, whatever size is appropriate to the particular situation. An armed America is far less likely to tolerate religious zealots in their midst that do not have the welfare of patriotic Americans in mind.

This does not mean a massive government program to purchase a sidearm for each and every citizen, but encouragement to exercise the duties and responsibilities to BEING an American. Introduction to firearms should begin before the child’s sixth birthday, and the safety aspect addressed and stressed above all else. Superstitious ideas and beliefs about weapons as mystic objects to bewilder and confound the minds of people should be exposed and given the light of information to dispel these unfounded misinterpretations.


9 posted on 04/17/2017 5:58:19 AM PDT by alloysteel (Some 95% of the personal woe in this world is self-induced.)
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Arming a moslem, any moslem is always a bad idea. Arm Israel and let Israel blow the moslems off the face of the earth.


10 posted on 04/17/2017 6:00:05 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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Dumb article. If the US stops selling arms, other countries will fill the vacuum. It is about supply and demand. US arms sales create American jobs, lower unit costs for the US military, keep our arms industry strong and viable, and give us a degree of control over the buyers in terms of maintenance, training, logistics, etc.

Arms sales are a highly competitive global business. US withdrawal will not change that.


11 posted on 04/17/2017 6:01:22 AM PDT by kabar
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"...None of them are worth saving..."


I have had the most calm-natured, sophisticated, urbane, and successful Muslim workmates become unhinged and frothing as they "defend" the 09/11/2001 terrorist attacks.
These are people making $300,000+ and living very comfortable lives, who were born here, and have resided here their whole lives.
I would certainly never trust a Muslim in my home. Way, way, way too unpredictable and volatile. I can think of no day-to-day situation that is improved by adding Muslim people to the mix.


12 posted on 04/17/2017 6:03:54 AM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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Agreed. Americans should only supply weapons to Americans, all Americans.


13 posted on 04/17/2017 6:15:13 AM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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To: Vendome

I think that number is close to what is in the US alone.


14 posted on 04/17/2017 6:16:23 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: alloysteel

Introduction to firearms should begin before the child’s sixth birthday,
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Absolutely correct. It’s a rule in my family!


15 posted on 04/17/2017 6:18:44 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: John O

Well thought out idea


16 posted on 04/17/2017 6:25:23 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: rktman

No one outside my close immediate family has lifted a finger to help arm me.


17 posted on 04/17/2017 7:04:51 AM PDT by Delta 21
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“We Should Stop Arming Everybody”.........

Except honest, law abiding American CITIZENS!


18 posted on 04/17/2017 7:41:29 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Delta 21

“We Should Stop Arming Everybody”.........

Except honest, law abiding American CITIZENS! Give “We, The People” the same weapons that to the “enemy” and let us be prepared for what is about to come.


19 posted on 04/17/2017 7:42:51 AM PDT by DaveA37
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There are at least five benefits to US arms sales and aid transfers: (1) they can serve specific US national security objectives, such as defeating the USSR in Afghanistan and thus helping win the Cold War; (2) arms sales help to lower the cost of weapons purchased by the US taxpayer by spreading R&D costs over a larger production run; (3) the US gains supplier leverage over countries we equip because they remain dependent on the US for spares, training, and support; (4) countries that we help arm tend to become more firmly attached to the US as allies; and (5), the availability of reliable, potent weapons from the US helps to diminish the incentives for purchases from other suppliers like Russia, China, and Europe and for indigenous weapons development and proliferation.


20 posted on 04/17/2017 12:07:06 PM PDT by Rockingham
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