I hope it isn't another case of today's friend being tomorrows well armed enemy.

Is there something wrong with this man?

I hope it isn't another case of today's friend being tomorrows well armed enemy.

Your comment hits the nail on the head.

Maybe he's buying oil favors. Since under Bush the value of the dollar has tanked, maybe our arms is the only thing of value in the middle east now.

Of course he is. And more than that, he's buying threats to Iran.

There will be a reckoning, in which someone says, "Hey, wait a minute: Why, if we're so pro-democracy, do we keep arming dictators?" The Saudi connection will weaken, and the missiles will be up for grabs.

Iran is more pro-democracy than Saudi Arabia is. The US govt is not pro-democracy at all; it is pro-itself only, and that means keeping oil flowing to its corporations as its first article of faith. Sheer hypocrisy!

"Hey, wait a minute: Why, if we're so pro-democracy, do we keep arming dictators?"

I don't think that thought has occurred to anyone in Washington.