-->vom Weltanteil Waffenexport gingen 40 % von Amerika aus an:
grösste Abnehmer waren

a) Pakistan
b) Afghanistan und
c) Saudi-Arabien


Emerald.

PS:
Einige bezahlten mit Oel, andere mit Mohnsamen.

-->What I don't especially like about the whole picture is that this need for increased government spending makes it attractive if not almost irresistible to expand the military. It even makes it attractive to start something, like, well, like a war with Iran. Nothing calls for increased spending like a war, with its accompanying surge in war supplies, and I'm talking about the vital need for tanks, ships, planes, weapons, armor, and so on. This may be a cynical observation, but the people who run this nation (either party) are nothing if not cynical Remember Ike's warning about the"military-industrial complex"? Would Washington start a war just to"get things going"? Frankly, I wouldn't bet against it. Heck, we started a war with Iraq, and Iraq wasn't even a danger. Of course, Iraq included something different behind it -- I think they call it oil.

Richard Russel on October 1, 2007