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Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth
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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
THe Saudis are not to be trusted. THe Majority of their country hates the US, and they even refuse to buy US products at all, except weapons. One day, you will be fighting the weapons you sold the Saudis if you give it to them now. You can bet on that.
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I agree. But we've already sold them AWACs, F-15s, late model AMRAAMs, JDAMs, and M1A2s. We will sell F-35s to the Israelis, perhaps even F-22s. Saudi Arabia will demand the F-35, and there is a decent chance they will get it. I hope our legislators would be smarter than that, but we shall see.
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Yes, all true. Much of the deals was done in response to the Kuwait war '91, and to counter the "Iraqi threat." Now there is Iran being raised as the threat by which one will excuse to sell the Saudis what they want (it already goes like this). Moral of the story: defense policies serve to sell defense goods, and selling defense goods knows neither loyalty nor patriotism. Ergo modern defense policies knows neither loyalty nor patriotism, neither reason nor shame.
So, today's practices are just the logical outcome of defense policies lacking any logic.