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How the US is arming terrorists

In accordance with the US law on the control of arms exports, prior to the conclusion of such transactions, it is necessary to conduct a thorough check and risk assessment. However, the fact that the United States sells weapons to many countries — including apparently weak, tyrannical, and dangerous regimes — indicates that "the risk assessment process is conducted in such a way as not to take into account possible risks."

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Ask anyone who served on the US military courts in the Persian Gulf at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, and they will most likely tell you that they were then afraid a little. In truth, the Gulf states at that time could not be compared with the power of Uncle Sam. 18 April 1988 of the year, for example, in the framework of Operation Mantis almost all the ships of the Iranian Navy — there were three plus a few speedboats — came out against several American servicemen and one aircraft from an aircraft carrier Enterprise. It could not even be called a full-fledged battle. By the end of the day, two Iranian ships were sunk, and the third was disabled.

But with Iranian harpoon anti-ship missiles, the jokes were bad. Before heading to the bottom, an 265-ton artillery boat Joshan managed to release one of these missiles on the American ship Wainwright. Fortunately, she did not reach the goal. But how, you might ask, did the Iranians manage to get such ultra-modern weapons? Uncle Sam sold these missiles, along with F-14 fighter jets capable of carrying them, to the Shah. In 1979, this weapon fell into the hands of the revolutionaries who overthrew the Iranian Shah and who hated America, largely because we helped him.

During my short service in this region aboard an American warship Ticonderoga in the fall of 1990, we trained to fire on gas masks in case Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against the American fleet. Saddam created chemical weapons with the help of America at a time when he was fighting the Iranians in the 1980s.

In 1989, US troops opposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega (Manuel Noriega), whose soldiers held weapons made in America.

In 1993, in Somalia, the US military had to face fighters who had modern weapons at their disposal, including ground-to-air missiles, towed guns, tanks and armored vehicles, once sold to the dictator Mohammed Siad Barre (Mohammed Siyad barre). When the warring factions overthrew Barre in 1991, they seized these weapons and fought against each other, dragging the country into a long civilian country, from which it cannot recover until now.

In 2014, the militants of the "Islamic State" (terrorist group banned on the territory of the Russian Federation - approx. ed.) seized weapons sold to the Iraqi army after the overthrow of Saddam, including army all-terrain vehicles and tanks, as well as a huge number of small arms and ammunition. Only in one month - in June 2014 of the year - the ISIL militants seized "vehicles, weapons and ammunition, which would be enough to arm more than three Iraqi divisions" or up to 50 thousands of soldiers, as stated in the UN Security Council report. With so many weapons in their hands, the ISIL militants seized vast tracts of territory, terrorizing Iraqis, Syrians, Kurds, Yezidis, and many other unfortunates who were in their way.

As at that time, Jin Healy joked (Gene healy), “We spent 25 billions of dollars ... on creating the Iraqi security forces as a result of getting a more modern version of the old joke about the South Vietnamese army: want to buy American rifles? Of them, no one shot - only once dropped! ".

In other words, this issue is nothing new.

In the recently published work of my colleagues from the Cato Trevor Troll Institute (Trevor Thrall) and Carolyn Dormini (Caroline dorminey) states that we need to review the policy of selling our weapons. In accordance with the law on the control of the export of weapons, prior to the conclusion of such transactions, it is necessary to conduct a thorough check and risk assessment. However, the fact that the United States sells weapons to many countries — including apparently weak, tyrannical, and dangerous regimes — indicates that "the risk assessment process is conducted in such a way as not to take into account possible risks."

Troll and Dormini intend to fix it. Using simple and elegant risk assessment tools based on five key indicators - stability based on the State Instability Index; version freedom rating Freedom House; the scale of political terror developed by the State Department; Global Terrorism Index; and data on armed conflicts — they conclude that “there are a large number of dangerous buyers in the world, and the United States sells weapons to most of them.” Libya, Iraq, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan demonstrate a high risk in all five indicators, however, "since 11 September, they purchased an average of 1,8 billion dollars worth of weapons from the United States." Troll and Dormini come to the conclusion that "the US policy is to sell weapons to almost everyone who can afford it, without thinking about the consequences."

They offer a different approach. "The United States," they write, "should reconsider its policy of selling weapons so that these sales bring them strategic benefits and at the same time avoid undesirable negative consequences." At a minimum, the process of selling weapons “must be revised so that each time a sale is made, a more thorough check is carried out than it has been until now.”

To me personally, this seems like a reasonable suggestion.

The original of this article was published on The National Interest and translated into Russian. InoSMI.ru

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