A farewell to arms

Fatima Bhutto, this week, writes in The News:

The United States, under the grand vision of George W Bush, intends to ask Congress to approve a multi-billion (twenty billion dollars to be precise) arms deal to Saudi Arabia. The aid package, which will contain the parcelling out of more money to other 'friendly' Middle Eastern nations, such as Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, includes another generous ten billion dollars to Israel. Certainly these countries have received American dollars in the past, but the Bush administration's paranoid fear of Iran now necessitates that money be thrown at countries like Saudi Arabia and Israel so as to counter the Persian threat.

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