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Officials: Bush Agrees to Sell F-16s to Pakistan
paigeoliver:
I am of the opinion that we should sell an unlimited amount of weapons to other countries, but all of them should be swords.
Matter of fact, I would LOVE to see a massive global stigma against the use of ranged weapons. I would like to see the stigma be so terrible that any country having ranged weapons would be invaded by 10,000 troops (armed with swords), along with 1,000s of sword tanks (tanks with HUGE swords on them).
It will never happen, but if we could somehow socially engineer a stigma against ranged weapons than wars would pretty much cease.
jbox:
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Ever read the "Prince In Waiting" trilogy? It is initially set as a medieval story, but you quickly find out that it is in fact a post-apocalyptic story. The word has regressed back into simple hand-warfaring city-states, with a deal amongst each other than anyone who tries to develop any of the evil "Technology" stuff that destroyed their world gets dealt with harshly... :police: :police: :police:
But based on my limited understanding of the Cold War I'm pretty sure the primary reason companies sell weapons to people is to make money. But the other reason companies sell weapons to people is that they can then get funding to build better weapons so that they can "stay ahead of the other guys weapons". ::)
And while we're on the topic - sorry about Australia. I mean, there's no point complaining about whether or not it is safe to build nuclear reactors if we just keep selling the damn stuff to everyone anyway. (sigh) :'(
Crazy Cooter:
You forgot the third reason for selling weapons: Testing. Sell them and see how well they perform in combat without going into combat yourself.
ChadTower:
That only applies if you also train their pilots, which we're not doing.
Crazy Cooter:
You don't buy multiple F-16's if you don't know how to fly them. ;)