Quote Originally Posted by poop
Um, so if we didn't sell them arms they'd have nowhere else to buy them? You might as well blame the guy who owns the gun shop because someone got murdered.
What a dreadful analogy.

Let's explore this. If a gunshop owner knew that his customer intended to use the gun to commit murder, and then sold the gun, then yes he's culpable. Further, if the gunshop owner knew that his customer had already murdered people, and was asking for more guns, and he sold them, then he's a complete fucking asshole who deserves to be in prison just as much as the murderer.

We are arming the Saudis knowing precisely what they intend to do with our weapons. They're dropping them on Yemen and we're selling them more. So no, this isn't innocently selling weapons on the international market, this is arming them so they can commit atrocities.

So by supplying them with arms we're supporting democracy. You think we should send arms to Putin instead?
No, and I'm not as bothered about us arming a country under invasion than I am about arming the Saudis. The fact that neo-Nazis are getting hold of our weapons is very much problematic, but Ukraine do need assistance. Let's just hope when all is said and done we don't have an Nazi ISIS on our hands.