Arms sales are wrong
Re “Bush visits Saudis; U.S. offers ‘smart’ weapons technology,” Jan. 15
President Bush, on his current peace mission to the Middle East, promised to sell $120 million worth of weapons technology to Saudi Arabia and an estimated $20 billion in weapons to six Persian Gulf nations. How can this be a peace mission?
Are we to believe that these weapons will aid the feeling of security and guarantee peace, and that they will simply gather dust and never be used? There is also the sad possibility that these weapons could eventually be used against Americans who have no business being there in the first place. Regardless of who suffers, selling arms is wrong; pumping more arms into the Middle East is insane.
Ken Christensen
Los Osos, Calif.
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