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Originally Posted by Ammi
..surely we’re complicit though, western countries who supply arms to contribute to the atrocities which are horrifying us../..the general public..?...I do agree with MTVN in the article being quite ‘lecturing’ but that’s because the focus isn’t more on things that are in Western country government control...those things our government could do something about through not supplying arms, keeping tighter vigilance of where weaponry is going to/where overseas funding is going to ..?...ok, it might be simplistic but if all western governments stopped supplying weaponry, which takes the lives of innocents...surely, not today, not tomorrow or any day soon..but some day those bullets, those weapons would dry up and lives would stop being taken...?...we, as countries may not be able to do anything to stop in the present days, but surely there are possibilities for the future in stopping the supply of right now with the visuals and realities we’re being made aware of..?...
...what do our governments think, what mindset and reasoning do they have and believe in..?...do they think it’s ok because Syria is a far off land and the repercussions will only be felt through media reporting...do those people have any less value because it isn’t ‘closer to home’ like for instance, a country in Europe or our ‘sister’, America....would we supply arms to those countries if we knew they were going to be used to kill innocent residents of the country, to kill children of those countries....?...it won’t ever stop because Western governments are not doing what is absolutely in their control in the supplying of and enabling to happen.../...so that would be complicity..?...
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The Syrian government get their weapons from Russia and Iran though, I'm not aware of any arms going from the UK to the Syrian regime in recent history