Weapons of Mass Preservation by Anthony Cordesman

WEAPONS OF MASS PRESERVATION - ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN (NEW YORK TIMES, AUGUST
16): In an ideal world, arms sales are hardly the tool the United States would
use to win stability and influence. America does not, however, exist in an ideal
world, nor in one that it can suddenly reform with good intentions and soft
power. Those pressuring Congress to kill the Bush administration?s proposed $20
billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states need to step
back into the real world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/opinion/...agewanted=print