Re: [OT]Responsibility and the Merchants of Death

--- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:

> However, I've seen and heard quite a few comments
> from USAmericans 
> critizising Sweden for not *getting involved* in the
> Gulf War and more 
> recently in Afganistan. They clearly don't count our
> delivering ~150,000 
> AT4s to the US armed forces prior to the Gulf War as
> getting involved (and 
> neither do they count the field hospital we did send
> there, since it didn't 
> take part in the actual fighting). 

There's different levels of involvement.  There's a
big difference between the level the Brits (for
instance, along with a lot of other people) were
involved as compared to a lot of other countries
(Sweden, Australia, et al).  Whether that level of
involvement is right/wrong/possible for the various
contries in question is another topic.

Some of those > AT4s are used in  > Afganistan as I
type this, but that too doesn't seem

Isn't the US now license-producing it's own AT-4s?  I
was under the impression US policy didn't allow us to
remain dependant on a foreign nation for ammunition.

> Agreed. And he must remember that both the firm he
> buys from *and* the 
> government of that firm's country need to have the
> same beliefs (or be 
> morally bankrupt), since either of them can stop the
> deliveries.

And that's why French and Chinese weapons are so
popular. . . 

John

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