Oh, well Mr. Anonymous thou who understands it all. Please 'plain it to me and correct my spelling while you're at it. Typical AmeriKKKan arrogance. We do sell our weapons to anyone (or at least they end up in nearly anyone's hands). I know, we pretend surprise and dismay. We do meddle in the internal affairs of other countries for the purpose of our own "national security." Now, where do I start? How about the time we attacked Cuba because our president and his brother decided that Cuba shouldn't be communist. We install Noreaga in Panama , then staged a bloody coup against him when he wouldn't do what he was told. Or Vietnam, where we attempted to make SE Asia safe for AmeriKKKan style democracy, or was it oil- hmmmm! The list goes on and on. If you don't know this stuff, I'm sorry, but I can't help you. How do you think Iraq got divided up beteen warring Arab factions- Sunni, Shiite, and Kurds? Internal stability works in our favor, doesn't it, until the situation explodes. Why did the US supply weapons and intelligence to the Shah. What a bloodthirsty bastard that was. All we ever wanted was to give them democracy sounds pretty like a lie when you think about some of the people we've supported. Other countries are sick of our meddling and want us out. It's over!