I know that the West ( Europe and the States) in the past have provided funding and/or ammunition by way of exports to the Middle East,
I need to know who, what, when, where and how for an arguement Im in the middle of!!!
thanks!
2006-07-15 11:24:11 · 7 answers · asked by lovethesun 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Sorry, in my hasyte forgot to mention that I mean funding for weaponry.
2006-07-15 11:24:54 · update #1
http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/50383.pdf
http://www.zmag.org/shalomhate.htm
http://www.fas.org/asmp/library/asm/asm34.html
2006-07-15 11:29:06 · answer #1 · answered by nefariousx 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The majority of that funding came during the Cold War. In our attempt to defeat the Soviets, we trained people in third-world countries to fight, gave them weapons, gave them funding, and supported them. This allowed us to force the Soviets to fight a well-regulated military while not fighting us. If western nations and the Soviets would have gotten into a war, it probably would have resulted in a full blown nuclear war. The Soviets trained other nations to fight us (Vietnam and Cuba) just as we trained nations like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc. to fight against the Soviets. Both sides were guilty of it. What happened is that after all the fighting, those nations were left with no true solid government, new impressive weapons that could do a lot of damage, and this all evolved to terrorists organizations. I don't know all the specifics on those, though, only the general details.
2006-07-15 11:32:57 · answer #2 · answered by rliedtky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read a book called "Charlie Wilson's War", for starters. It's about how the CIA covertly supplied weapons and ammunitions to afganistan during their war with the soviet union.
Read this article about the "iran-contra affair". It involves the government selling weapons to Iran to fund illegitmate operations in south america:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra
The United States sold weapons (helicopters) to iraq in the iraq-iran war:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq-iran_war#Military_Armaments.2FTechnology_2
2006-07-15 11:33:45 · answer #3 · answered by extton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the defence companies didn't armed the enemy, directly or indirectly, there would be no need to arm the western military. Oh dear!
2006-07-15 19:54:17 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best way to answer this question is with a question!!!
What ever happened to Oliver North.
Enough said.
2006-07-15 11:42:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are spending too much time in the sun!!
2006-07-15 11:27:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why don't you grow up, their are jokes then their are idiots guess which one you are?
2006-07-15 12:13:09 · answer #7 · answered by mastersnina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋