Foreign military aid always seems to come back to haunt the U.S.

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Just sayin'. Middle East, Asia, South America- just to name a few areas. Maybe if we're pissed how our government has put our weapons to use it would be sensible to reconsider how freely we sell (or even give) these high-tech weapons and weapon systems to other countries.

  Other countries which are often more inclined to use them as a first resort.

  When people see the unmistakable silhouette of an F-16 or an Apache helicopter gunship or when they're digging the bodies of their family out of rubble and see the English written on bomb or missile fragments, do you really think they don't "put 2 and 2 together"?

  The United States military holds press conferences to show us the alleged weaponry coming in from Iran into Iraq for the insurgency, for instance. Do you really think the U.S. is the only one who does this?

  It does turn a fantastic buck, though: All those weapons.

  But from everything I've always been told about America, we're smart enough to make twice as much selling something a little more noble. Right?

PB