Here is the deal…
US Congress voted for more close military cooperation with Georgia as a result of which Georgia will get new weapons not only from US but also from NATO members… The feature was included into Pentagon’s budget for 2012. According to the bill Saakashvili will be able to buy defensive armament and that was approved by the US House of Representatives and now Obama have to sign it…
You know, the most disturbing is that Georgia as before will resell that armament to some countries that are hostile towards US like Syria or even Kurds. Previously US weapon handed to Georgia was located in Lebanon so why Saakashvili should abandon such profitable business like selling American weapon to enemies of America? Don’t you think it’s weird? Of course Saakashvili won’t be down by such generosity of US government, but what about the moral side of question? Is it OK to kill US and NATO soldiers with their own weapon?
Moving thread from IMHO to Great Debates.
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The Kurds 1) aren’t a country and 2) aren’t hostile towards the US.
If I were Georgia, and I just bought a bunch of high-tech weapons from the US to deter another Russian invasion, the last thing I would want to do is sell them to Syria (or anyone else). Because if I did sell them, I would the be without weapons.
And then if I went back to the US and said, “Hey, can you sell me some more weapons?” the US would be like, “But I just sold you some weapons! What happened to the weapons that I just sold you!” I’d be like, “Uh… those are great weapons, but, you know, I just wanted to have some more.” And the US would be all, “No more weapons until you show me where your other weapons are!” And then I’d say, “Uh… actually I don’t want the weapons… it’s like, a friend of mine who wants the weapons?” And the US is all like, “Well, when your friend is grown up enough to come talk to me about weapons, then your friend and I will talk about weapons, and you don’t need to be involved.” Then I’m like, “Uh.. okay.”
It’d be totally embarrassing, and I’d be left without any weapons. :rolleyes:
Since Israel also sold a lot of weapons to Georgia, I’m pretty sure that they weren’t being resold to Syria. The Israeli government keeps track of these sort of things.
We let the Russians fuck the Georgians over a few years ago and didn’t do anything, and I don’t think the Russians are done trying to fuck the Georgians over, so we might as well sell them weapons, because they can’t count on us to protect them.
A better argument would be that anything sold to Georgia would almost certainly end up in the hands of the Russians, one way or another. Certainly the Georgians weren’t too eager to risk their lives in preventing the capture of these weapons in the last war (and why should they?), and in any case if the Russian intelligence services are half as good as they are portrayed to be - the god damn president of Russia is literally a KGB agent, the Georgian military and government should have been thoroughly infiltrated by Russian agents decades ago.