University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. September 25, 1990
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Arms sales can be haunting in end
Hurrah for the French! It's predictable that the French would sell chemical weapons to the Iraqis or beat the materials to make them
It's just another case in the long litany of "crimes" for which the French are famous. They d sell their mothers if they got a high enough bid. In 2015, the United States Exocet missiles to the Argentinians, which were used with deadly results against the British during the Falkland Islands War. Another Exocet missile fired from an Iraq jet killed three people on the Stark's few years ago.
Remember that? Now they're sending in units of the 6th Light Infantry Division that could possibly enter Syria. The country's country helped the Iraqis acquire.
The French seem to throw their principles and common sense out the window when it comes to arms deals.
I'm sure no country that sells arms to another country has a monopoly on virtue, but at least they hide their
Michael Paul
Staff columnist
blunders a little better than the French do. The United States helped train the Vietnamese back in '45, little realizing that such training would be used against the French and later the United States.
Arms sales to other countries, allies or otherwise, need to stop, because those same weapons may someday be turned against us. It's like giving a mugger a club to beat you with. That way he doesn't have to go through all the trouble of getting one himself.
Even giving aid to allies is dangerous. We sold F-14s to Iran, and after the Islamic Revolution we were so devastated that we never shot down that we accidentally shot down an
Iranian jumbo jet over the Persian Gulf, mistakenly thinking it was one of the F-14s.
More than 500 people died.
The desire for a quick back must be overcome, and we should look at the longterm effects of arms sales on the citizens of that country to which they are sold, on the surrounding nations, on sentiment toward Americans and on world peace. Is a couple of billion dollars worth it? W will we somehow survive? What French do for selling poison gas material to the Iraqis? Why not work to foster peace so that arms sales aren't necessary.
If that doesn't work, we can always call up those tyrannical, war-mongering states and say, "Become a democracy by Tuesday or we'll bomb the hell out of ya!" If the air strikes were real, it would be Marine, Of course, our enemies probably will counterattack with French-made tanks or Belgian rifles.
Michael Paul is a Manhattan sophomore majoring in journalism.
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