Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit
Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit quotes a reader who wants to know "What's up with the journalistic convention of noting, whenever the Israelis use military force, that they're pounding the Palestinians with "U.S.-supplied" weapons?"
"Yeah, what is up with that?" Reynolds asks. "Like we don't know."
It would be a good thing if the paper editors exercised some parity and routinely named the suppliers of funds and explosives to various terrorists, provided that they could do so with reasonable certainty.
However, constant reminders that the Palestinians are being pounded with American weaponry probably ought to give us a clue about why US arbitration in the region is so problematic.
I would suggest that it may be difficult for Palestinians to believe in American impartiality when they're being targeted by Boeing Apache AH-64 helicopter gunships equipped with Longbow Fire Control Radars, Radar Frequency Interferometers, Target Acquisition Designation Sights, Pilot Night Vision Sensors, AGM-114L3 Hellfire II laser guided missiles, and M230 cannons that fire 1,200 30-millimeter rounds a minute.
The fact that we sell similar weapons platforms to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates probably isn't much comfort.
