Weapons




Cartoon: Alex Hughes

 

$60 billion in weapons are to be sold to Saudi Arabia by the U.S. government, pending predicted approved by Congress. Saudi Arabia is a monarchy, a corrupt and repressive regime, kept afloat by petroleum politics and fundamentalist Islam. And, Saudi Arabia is our fair-weather ally in the roiling debacle of Middle East diplomacy. Keep in mind that Saudi Arabians were the majority of 911 terrorists.



The U.S. government portrays itself as a force for peace and freedom in the world. This is a propaganda lie. This weapons deal underlines the lie. Peace is nonviolence. Freedom does not exist in a totalitarian state.