Date: May 29th, 2002 10:17 am (UTC)From:(Anonymous)
One use for arms and armies which is neither external aggression nor internal repression is to pile them up in heaps near your borders so that your crazy neighbours don’t get any funny ideas about invading you.
And of course the government gets to define ‘aggression’ and ‘repression’ to suit its own requirements. External actions that Britain approves of don’t count as aggression, so from their point of view their rules on arms sales are consistent enough.
At least India is a democracy, and not a military dictatorship like Pakistan.
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What are they going to be used for?
Date: May 29th, 2002 10:17 am (UTC)From: (Anonymous)And of course the government gets to define ‘aggression’ and ‘repression’ to suit its own requirements. External actions that Britain approves of don’t count as aggression, so from their point of view their rules on arms sales are consistent enough.
At least India is a democracy, and not a military dictatorship like Pakistan.