Vienna meet must discuss how arms sales to unstable regimes fuel conflict

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http://atimes.com/2015/10/vienna-meet-must-discuss-how-arms-sales-to-unstable-regimes-fuel-conflict/



Vienna meet must discuss how arms sales to unstable regimes fuel conflict
By AT Editor on October 29, 2015

As world leaders gather at Vienna Friday to discuss Syria’s future, a report on how massive arms sales by big powers lead to corruption, extremism, conflicts and chaos in the region assumes significance.

The study based on two years of research by Transparency International (TI), a non-governmental organization that monitors political corruption, says western nations like the US, Great Britain, Germany and Russia have helped increase defense corruption among Arab states by selling them vast quantities of weapon.

This, in turn, has worsened the security situation in the region by further arming violent extremist groups.

Conflicts will deepen and spread to alarming levels if countries selling advanced weapons fail to monitor where their products end up.

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1. Who from the US would have approved arm sales to those countries?

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2. Obama, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, the MIC, Wall $treet, ..........

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3. Point taken.