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Thursday Oct 4, 2007 5:01 pm
Washington’s White Market/Blackwater’s Black Market
If the current Iraq war has taught us anything, it’s when the streets run red with blood, buy property...and sell weapons.
The escalating conflicts in the Middle East, which have been called everything but World War III, continue to provide the countries with the largest weapon stockpiles multiple opportunities to cash in. Foremost in this bank run is the United States, which is fighting to maintain its role as the leading weapons supplier to nations feverishly seeking to increase their military might.
Meanwhile, the Blackwater whirlpool of corruption is still operating with impunity. Since the Bush administration doesn’t see curtailing their dubious activity as a top priority, continued human rights violations and black market arms deals will continue to destabilize the region.
The United States’ policies and presence in the Middle East don’t make a shining beacon of democracy and freedom. Instead, opportunistic Americans are looking to corner the Iraqi market one way or another, legally or illegally, large or small, public or private, with weapons or property ownership.
By Davie Williams, Publishing Intern
The escalating conflicts in the Middle East, which have been called everything but World War III, continue to provide the countries with the largest weapon stockpiles multiple opportunities to cash in. Foremost in this bank run is the United States, which is fighting to maintain its role as the leading weapons supplier to nations feverishly seeking to increase their military might.
Meanwhile, the Blackwater whirlpool of corruption is still operating with impunity. Since the Bush administration doesn’t see curtailing their dubious activity as a top priority, continued human rights violations and black market arms deals will continue to destabilize the region.
The United States’ policies and presence in the Middle East don’t make a shining beacon of democracy and freedom. Instead, opportunistic Americans are looking to corner the Iraqi market one way or another, legally or illegally, large or small, public or private, with weapons or property ownership.
By Davie Williams, Publishing Intern
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Giving modern weapons to the primitives in the Middle East is the same as giving guns to toddlers. We collectively should be ashamed and write our representatives expressing our disgust.
(Unfortunately, it is not only the West dealing in this death trade. China is a huge player as well.)
Every illegal weapon was first a legal weapon, and it is a big industry with a very large profit motive. Black market arms trade is also entwined with black market drugs trade.
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