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“US defense contractors had the Moet flowing as Hagel merrily congregated with that prodigy of democracy – United Arab Emirates (UAE) Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed – to celebrate the sale of 25 F-16 fighter jets.  There’s more on the way; 48 Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD missile interceptors, at a cool US$1 billion.  The Pentagon is sending one of its only two of such systems to Guam this month to counter that other threat – missiles from North Korea.  Obama in Syria is fast becoming a remix of Reagan in 1980s Afghanistan. We all know what came out of those ‘freedom fighters’ afterwards.”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-020513.html