While it is true that we sell arms to a lot of countries, and I'm sure that's a consideration in foreign policy, $1.4 billion in 11 years is just pocket change, a truly insignificant amount of money in the overall scheme of things.Īt 4:44 PM, SeptemThe Ridger, FCD had this to say. competitors like Russia or China," as one expert puts it.Īt 8:04 AM, SeptemMark had this to say. After all, "If you cut off arms sales, a client would go straight to U.S. It's big business: 40 billion dollars in 2009. Two hundred million dollars in sales just in 2010. Delivery of both systems was planned for 2009.One point four billion dollars. The Bahrain Defense Force also placed orders for 9 UH-60M Blackhawk helicopters and 2 Mk-V Fast Patrol Boats. EDA acquisition value delivered since the U.S.-Bahraini program began in 1993. Bahrain has received $195 million in FMF and $410 million in U.S. military systems acquired by the BDF include eight Apache helicopters, 54 M60A3 tanks, 22 F-16C/D aircraft, 51 Cobra helicopters, 9 MLRS Launchers (with ATACMS), 20 M109A5 Howitzers, 1 Avenger AD system, and the TPS-59 radar system. military sales to Bahrain since 2000 total $1.4 billion.
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Still, I imagine it's more about what this State Department note points out: U.S. Wouldn't want the Iranians to get any more allies. Shades of Jon Stewart pointing out that Bush was keeping his promise not to engage in "nation building" in Iraq.Īnd one does wonder if this is because it's a Shia majority rising up against a Sunni monarchy. Pretty grim reading, especially the last bit (my italics) : a press release from The Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency, September 14, 2011: 53 million dollars of vehicles, missiles, support and training which will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a major non-NATO ally that has been, and continues to be, an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East.As Greenwald notes, the president is keeping his word: we aren't "standing idly by". It's a little chronology of what's been going on there since March, when Obama made that pledge. But if someone tries to kill an American soldier in Afghanistan - let's not even think about in the US - they're a Terrorist.Īnother dispiriting read at Glenn Greenwald's, this time on our noble refusal to "stand idly by when a tyrant tells his people there will be no mercy" in Bahrain.
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SEAL teams or drones or a platoon of Marines or an air strike. Navy SEALs entered Pakistani territory to go after Bin Laden, without Pakistani government knowledge or permission.We can go anywhere and kill anyone, basically. International legal principles, including respect for a state’s sovereignty and the laws of war, impose important constraints on our ability to act unilaterally.”īrennan did not explain how that constraint applied when the U.S. can use military force “whenever we want, wherever we want. Yet Brennan followed that by saying that does not mean the U.S. “We reserve the right to take unilateral action if or when other governments are unwilling or unable to take the necessary actions themselves,” Brennan said. believes present an imminent threat, wherever they are.
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can protect itself with pre-emptive action against suspects the U.S.
He says under international law, the U.S. White House counter terror chief John Brennan laid out what could be called the Osama bin Laden raid doctrine, in remarks at Harvard Law School.