And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Arms Around the World
http://www.motherjones.com/arms/
It was the early 1990s and then-presidential candidate Bill
Clinton was
on the campaign trail making promises: "I expect to review
our arms
sales policy and to take it up with the other major arms
sellers of the
world as a part of a long-term effort to reduce the
proliferation of
weapons."
Ah, campaign promises. But the economy was in the doldrums,
and
the prospect of cutting arms sales -- sugar daddy to one of
the
nation's largest industries -- didn't thrill either labor
or corporate
America. What's more, the Gulf War had just ended the previous
year, and it was the best extended commercial an arms salesman
could ask for. (Indeed, some arms manufacturers incorporated
bombing videos into their promotional materials.) Countries
were
clamoring for the high-tech weapons that made for such good
TV.
So, once elected, Bill Clinton did what he does best: He took
advantage of the opportunity. Rather than insert human-rights
concerns into the arms-sales equation, as did his Democratic
predecessor President Carter, Clinton decided to aggressively
continue the sales policies of President Bush, himself no
slouch when
it came to selling U.S. arms.
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