What can we do to stop arms dealing to countries that use weapons against their own people?
How much worse is it to use weapons against your own people as opposed to your neighbours, or people a bit further away? I actually think that if a country uses arms against the country that supplied the arms in the first place thereis some degree of poetic justice to it, on the contrary. Do you expect an unwritten code of conduct that weapons will not be used against the supplying country but should only be used against other countries? Isn’t that, even if it could ever be implemented and adhered to, extremely cynical? That would make selling arms a way to defend yourself: ‘go shoot other people, kill them all if you want, but don’t touch me…’ I think that we should first look at weapons that have been outlawed or should be outlawed. Think of Israel dropping cluster bombs in th elast 2 days of their invasion of Lebanon, think of Israel (I’m not picking on them, it’s just more recent) allegedly using DIME weapons that destroy animals and people but leave infrastructure intact, think
