Endless Flow of Weapons Fuels Endless War in Iraq and Syria

US arms companies are making a killing.

New report shows how flood of munitions from across the globe, including the United States, are making peace impossible in Middle East
by
Jon Queally

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/10/06/endless-flow-weapons-fuels-endless-war-iraq-and-syria

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Taken together, the pattern shows how the persistent flood of weapons into the region—not just from the U.S., but from China, Russia, and other large suppliers as well—has fueled the violence and the killing on all sides of the conflict.

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As Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, told Common Dreams in reaction to CAR's September report on weapons in the region: "This is one more piece of evidence of why military solutions have devastating consequences in the immediate and long terms. We see an example of the consequences of the over-arming of the region if we look back at Afghanistan in the 1980s during the anti-Soviet War when the U.S. provided stinger missiles that can bring down aircraft to mujahedin guerrillas who morphed into al Qaeda."